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Spalding's 
/\thletic Library 

Anticipating the present ten- 
dency of the American people 
toward a healthful method of living 
and enjoyment, Spalding's Athletic 
Library was established in 1892 for 
the purpose of encouraging ath- 
letics in every form, not only by 
publishing the official rules and 
records pertaining to the various 
pastimes, but also by instructing, 
until to-day Spalding's Athletic 
Library is unique in its own par- 
ticular field and has been conceded 
the greatest educational series on 
athletic and physical training sub- 
jects that has ever been compiled. 
The publication of a distinct 
series of books devoted to athletic 
sports and pastimes and designed 
to occupy the premier place in 
America in its class was an early 
idea of Mr. A. G. Spalding, who 
wag one of the first in America 
to publish a handbook devoted to 
athletic sports, Spalding's Official 
Base Ball Guide being the initial 
number, which was followed at intervals with other handbooks on the 
sports prominent in the '70s. 

Spalding's Athletic Library has had the advice and counsel of Mr. A. G. 
Spalding in all of its undertakings, and particularly in all books devoted 
to the national game. This applies especially to Spalding's Official 
Base Ball Guide and Spalding's Official Base Ball Record, both of which 
receive the personal attention of Mr. A. G. Spalding, owing to his early 
connection with the game as the leading pitcher of the champion Boston 
and Chicago teams of 1872-76. His interest does not stop, however, with 
matters pertaining to base ball; there is not a sport that Mr. Spalding 
does not make it his business to become familiar with, and that the 
Library will always maintain its premier place, with Mr. Spalding's able 
counsel at hand, goes without saying. 

The entire series since the issue of the first number has been under 
the direct personal supervision of Mr. James E. Sullivan, President 
of the American Sports Publishing Company, and the total series of 
consecutive numbers reach an aggregate of considerably over three 
hundred, included in which are many "annuals," that really constitute 
the history of their particular sport in America year by year, back copies 
of which are even now eagerly sought for, constituting as they do the 
really first authentic records of events and official rules that have ever 
been consecutively compiled. 

When Spalding's Athletic Library was founded, seventeen years ago, 
track and field athletics were practically unknown outside the larger 
colleges and a few athletic clubs in the leading cities, which gave occa- 
sional meets, when an entry list of 250 competitors was a subject of com- 
ment; golf was known only by a comparatively few persons; lawn tennis 
had some vogue and base ball was practically the only established field 




A. G. Spalding 



EDITORS OF SPALDING' S ATHLETIC LIBRARY 

sport, and that in a professional way; basket ball had just been invented; 
athletics for the schoolboy — and schoolgirl— were almost unknown, and 
an advocate of class contests in athletics in the schools could not get a 
hearing. To-day we find the greatest body of athletes in the world is 
the Public Schools Athletic League of Greater New York, which has had 
an entry list at its annual games of over two thousand, and in whose 
"elementary series" in base ball last year 106 gohools competed for the 
trophy emblematic of the championship. 

While Spalding's Athletic Library cannot claim that the rapid growth 
of athletics in this country is due to it solely, the fact cannot be denied 
that the books have had a great deal to do with its encouragement, by 
printing the official rules and instructions for playing the various games 
at a nominal price, within the reach of everyone, with the sole object 
that its series might be complete and the one place where a person 
could look with absolute certainty for the particular book in which he 
might be interested. 

In selecting the editors and writers for the various books, the lead- 
ing authority in his particular line has been obtained, with the result 
that no collection of books on athletic subjects can compare with 
Spalding's Athletic Library for the prominence of the various authors 
and their ability to present their subjects in a thorough and practical 
manner. 

A short sketch of a few of those who have edited some of the lead- 
ing numbers of Spalding's Athletic Library is given herewith : 



JAMES E. SULLIVAN 

President American Sports Publishing Com- 
pany; entered the publishing house of Frank 
Leslie in 1878, and has been connected continu- 
ously with the publishing business since then 
and also as athletic editor of various New 
York papers; was a competing athlete; one of 
the organizers of the Amateur Athletic Union 
of the United States; has been actively on its 
board of governors since its organization until 
the present time, and President for two suc- 
cessive terms; has attended every champion- 
ship meeting in America since 1879 and has officiated in some capacity in 
connection with American amateur championships track and field games 
for nearly twenty-five years; assistant American director Olympic Games, 
Piris, 1930; director Pan-American Exposition athletic department, 1901; 
chief department physical culture Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. 
Louis, 1904; secretary American Committee Olympic Games, at Athens, 
19[)3; honorary director of Athletics at Jamestown Exposition, 1907; secre- 
tary American Committee Olympic Games, at London, 1908; member of 
the Pastime A. C, New York; honorary member Missouri A. C, St. Louis; 
honorary member Olympic A. C, San Francisco; ex-president Pastime 
A. C, New Jersey A. C, Knickerbocker A. C; president Metropolitan 
Association of the A. A. U. for fifteen years; president Outdoor Recrea- 
tion League; with Dr. Luther H. Gulick organized the Public Schools 
Athletic League of New York, and is now chairman of its games commit- 
tee and member executive committee; was a pioneer in playground work 
and one of the organizers of the Outdoor Recreation League of New York ; 
appointed by President Roosevelt as special commissioner to the Olympic 
Games at Athens, 1906, and decorated by King George I. of the Hellenes 
(Greece) for his services in connection with the Olympic Games; ap- 
pointed special commissioner by President Roosevelt to the Olympic 
Games at London, 1908; appointed by Mayor McClellan, 1908, as member 
of the Board of Education of Greater New York. 





EDITORS OF S PALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY 

WALTER CAMP 

For quarter of a century Mr. Walter Camp 
of Yale has occupied a leading- position in col- 
lege athletics. It is immaterial what organiza- 
tion is suggested for college athletics, or for 
the betterment of conditions, insofar as college 
athletics is concerned, Mr. Camp has always 
played an important part in its conferences, 
and the great interest in and high plane of 
college sport to-day. are undoubtedly due more 
to Mr. Camp than to any other individual. Mr. 
Camp nas probably written more on college 
athletics than any other ^yriter and the leading papers and maga- 
zinestof America are always anxious to secure his expert opinion on foot 
ball, track and field athletics, base ball and rowing. Mr. Camp has grown 
up with Yale athletics and is a part of Yale's remarkable athletic system. 
While he has been designated as the "Father of Foot Ball," it is a well 
known fact that during his college career Mr. Camp was regarded as one 
of the best players that ever represented Yale on the base ball field, so 
when we hear of Walter Camp as a foot ball expert we must also remem- 
ber his remarkable knowledge of the game of base ball, of which he is a 
great admirer. Mr. Camp has edited Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 
since it was first published, and also the Spalding Athletic Library book 
on How to Play Foot Ball. There is certainly no man in American college 
life better qualified to write for Spalding's Athletic Library than Mr. 
Camp. 



DR. LUTHER HALSEY GULICK 

The leading exponent of physical training 
in America; one who has worked hard to im- 
press the value of physical training in the 
schools; when physical training was combined 
with education at the St. Louis Exposition in 
1904 Dr. Gulick played an important part in 
that congress; he received several awards for 
his good work and had many honors conferred 
upon him; he is the author of a great many 
books on the subject; it was Dr. Gulick, who, 
acting on the suggestion of James E. Sullivan, 
organized the Public Schools Athletic League of Greater New York, and 
was its first Secretary; Dr. Gulick was also for several years Director of 
Physical Training in the public schools of Greater New York, resigning 
the position to assume the Presidency of the Playground Association of 
America. Dr. Gulick is an authority on all subjects pertaining to phys- 
ical trainingf and the study of the child. 



JOHN B. FOSTER 

Successor to the late Henry Chadwick 
("Father of Base Ball") as editor of Spald- 
ing's Official Base Ball Guide; sporting editor 
of the New York Evening Telegram; has 
been in the newspaper business for many 
years and is recognized throughout America 
as a leading writer on the national game; a 
staunch supporter of organized base ball, 
his pen has always been used for the better- 
ment of the game. 





EDITORS OF SPALDING' S ATHLETIC LIBRARY 




TIM MURNANE 

Base Ball editor of the Boston Globe and 
F*-esident of the New England League of 
L.ise Ball Clubs; one of the best known base 
ball men of the country; known from coast 
to coast; is a keen follower of the game and 
prominent in all its councils; nearly half a 
century ago was one of America's foremost 
players: knows the game thoroughly and 
writes from tlie point of view both of player 
and an official. 




HARRY PHILIP BURCHELL 

Sporting editor of the New York Times; 
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania; 
editor of Spalding's Official Lawn Tennis 
Annual; is an authority on the game; follows 
the movements of the players minutely and 
understands not only tennis but all other sub- 
jects that can be classed as athletics; no one 
is better quahfied to edit this book than Mr. 
Burchell. 




GEORGE T. HEPBRON 

Former Young Men's Christian Association 
director; for many years an official of the 
Athletic League of Young Men's Christian 
Associations of North America ; was con- 
nected with Dr. Luther H. Gulick in Young 
Men's Christian Association work for over 
twelve years; became identified with basket 
ball when it was in its infancy and has fol- 
lowed it since, being recognized as the lead- 
ing exponent of the official rules; succeeded 
Dr. Gulick as editor of the Official Basket Ball 

Guide and also editor of the Spalding Athletic Library book on How to 

Play Basket Ball. 



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JAMES S. MITCHEL 

Former champion weight thrower; holder 
of numerous records, and is the winner of 
more championships than any other individual 
in the history of sport ; Mr. Mitchel is a close 
student of athletics and well qualified to write 
upon any topic connected with athletic sport ; 
has been for years on the staff of the New 
York Sun. 



EDITORS OF SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY 



MICHAEL C. MURPHY 

The world's most famous athletic trainer; 
the champion athletes that he has developed 
for track and field sports, foot ball and base ball 
fields, would run into thousands; he became 
famous when at Yale University and has 
been particularly successful in developing 
what might be termed championship teams; 
his rare good judgment has placed him in an 
enviable position in the athletic world; now 
with the University of Pennsylvania ; dur- 
ing his career has trained only at two col- 
leges and one athletic club, Yale and the 
University of Pennsylvania and Detroit Athletic Club; his most recent 
triumph was that of training the famous American team of athletes 
that swept the field at the Olympic Games of 1908 at London. 





DR. C. WARD CRAMPTON 

Succeeded Dr. Gulick as director of physical 
training in the schools of Greater New York : 
as secretary of the Public Schools Athletic 
League is at the head of the, most remarkable 
organization of its kind in the world; is a 
practical athlete and gymnast himself, and 
has been for years connected with the physi- 
cal training system in the schools of Greater 
New York, having had charge of the High 
School of Commerce. 




DR. GEORGE J. FISHER 

Has been connected with Y. M. C. A. work 
for many years as physical director at Cincin- 
nati and Brooklyn, where he made such a high 
reputation as organizer that he was chosen to 
succeed Dr. Luther H. Gulick as Secretary of 
the Athletic League of Y. M. C. A.'s of North 
America, when the latter resigned to take 
charge of the physical training in the Public 
Schools of Greater New York. 



DR. GEORGE ORTON 

On athletics, college athletics, particularly 
track and field, foot ball, soccer foot ball, and 
training of the youth, it would be hard to find 
one better qualified than Dr. Orton; has had 
the necessary athletic experience and the 
ability to impart that experience intelligently 
to the youth of the land; for years was the 
American, British and Canadian champion 
runner. 



EDITORS OF SPALDING* S ATHLETIC LIBRARY 








FREDERICK R. TOOMBS 

A well known authority on skating, rowing, 
boxing, racquets, and other athletic sports; 
was sporting editor of American Press Asso- 
ciation, New York; dramatic editor; is a law- 
yer and has served several terms as a member 
of Assembly of the Legislature of the State of 
New York; has written several novels and 
historical works. 



R. L. WELCH 

A resident of Chicago; the popularity of 
indoor base ball is chiefly due to his efforts; 
a player himself of no mean ability; a first- 
class organizer; he has followed the game of 
indoor base ball from its inception. 



DR. HENRY S. ANDERSON 

Has been connected with Yale University 
for years and is a recognized authority on 
gymnastics; is admitted to be one of the lead- 
ing authorities in America on gymnastic sub- 
jects; is the author of many books on physical 
training. 



CHARLES M. DANIELS 

Just the man to write an authoritative 
book on swimming; the fastest swimmer the 
world has ever known; member New York 
Athletic Club swimming team and an Olym- 
pic champion at Athens in 1906 and London, 
1908. In his book on Swimming, Champion 
Daniels describes just the methods one must 
use to become an expert swimmer. 

GUSTAVE BOJUS 

Mr. Bojus is most thoroughly qualified to 
write intelligently on all subjects pertaining 
to gymnastics and athletics; in his day one 
of America's most famous amateur athletes; 
has competed successfully in gymnastics and 
many other sports for the New York Turn 
Verein; for twenty years he has been prom- 
inent in teaching gymnastics and athletics; 
was responsible for the famous gymnastic 
championship teams of Columbia University; 
now with the Jersey City high schools. 



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CHARLES JACOBUS 

Admitted to be the "Father of Roque;" 
one of America's most expert players, win- 
ning the Olympic Championship at St. Louis 
in 1904; an ardent supporter of the game 
and follows it minutely, and much of the 
success of roque is due to his untiring efforts; 
certainly there is no one better qualified to 
write on this subject than Mr. Jacobus. 



DR. E. B. WARMAN 

Well known as a physical training expert; 
was probably one of the first to enter the field 
and is the author of many books on the sub- 
ject; lectures extensively each year all over 
the country. 



W. J. CROMIE 

Now with the University of Pennsylvania; 
was formerly a Y. M. C. A. physical director; 
a keen student of all gymnastic matters: the 
author of many books on subjects pertaining 
to physical training. 



G. M. MARTIN 

By profession a physical director of the 
Young Men's Christian Association; a close 
student of all things gymnastic, and games 
for the classes in the gymnasium or clubs. 



PROF. SENAC 

A leader in the fencing world; has main- 
tained a fencing school in New Yorh for 
years and developed a great many cham- 
pions ; understands the science of fencing 
thoroughly and the benefits to be derived 
therefrom. 



SPALDING ATHLETIC LIBRARY 



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Giving the Titles of all Spalding Athletic Library Books now 
J in print, grouped for ready reference c 

SPALDING OFFICIAL ANNUALS 

No. I Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide 

No. lA Spalding's Official Base Ball Record 

No. 2 Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 

No. 2A Spalding's Official Soccer Foot Bali Guide 

No. 3 Spalding's Official Cricket Guide 

No. 4 Spalding's Official Lawn Tennis Annual 

No. 5 Spalding's Official Golf Guide 

No. 6 Spalding's Official Ice Hockey Guide 

No. 7 Spalding's Official Basket Ball Guide 

No. 7A Spalding's Official Women's Basket Ball Guidt 

No. 8 Spalding's Official Lacrosse Guide 

No. 9 Spalding's Official Indoor Base Ball Guide 

No. 10 Spalding's Official Roller Polo Guide 

No. 12 Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac 

No. I2A Spalding's Official Athletic Rules 



€roup I. Base Ball 

No.l Spalding* sOfficial BaseBall Guide 
No. lA Official Base Ball Record. 
How to Play Base Ball. 
How to Bat. 
How to Run Bases. 
How to Pitch. 
How to Catch. 
How to Play First Base. 
How to Play Second Base. 
How to Play Third Base. 
How to Play Shortstop. 
How to Play the Outfield. 
How to Organize a Base Ball 
League. [Club. 

How to Organize a Base Ball 
How to Manage a Base Ball 

Club. 
How toTrain aBaseBallTeam 
How to Captain a Base Ball 
HowtoUmpii-eaGa.ne. [Team 
Technical Base Ball Terms. 
Ready Reckoner of Base Ball 
Percentages. 
BASE BALL AUXILIARIES 
No. 336 Minor League Base Ball Guide 
No. 338 Official Book National League 

of Prof. Base Ball Clubs. 
No. 340 Official Handbook National 
Playground Ball Assn. 

Group II. Foot Ball 

No.2 Spalding' sOfficial Foot Ball Guide 
No. 334 Code of the Foot Ball Rules. 

How to Play Foot Ball. 

Spalding's Official Soccer Foot 
Ball Guide. 

How to Play Soccer. 

English Rugby. 



No. 202 
No. 223 
No. 232 
No. 230 
No. 229 
No. 225 
No. 226 
No. 227 
No. 228 
No. 224 



No. 
231. 



No. 219 



No. 324 
No. 2a 



No. 286 
No. 335 



FOOT BALL AUXILIARY 
No. 332 Spalding's Official Canadian 

Group III. ^°°*^ ^^" ^"^^^- CrIcKct 

No. 3 Spalding's Official Cricket Guide. 
No. 277 Cricket and How to Play It. 

Group IV. Lawn Tennis 

No. 4 Spalding's Official Lawn Ten- 
nis Annual. 
No. 157 How to Play Lawn Tennis. 
No. 279 Strokes and Science of Lawn 

Group V. ^°""^^- Golf 

No. 5 Spalding's Official Golf Guide 
No. 276 How to Play Golf . 

Group VI. Hochey 

No. 6 Spalding's Official Ice Hockey 

Guide. 
No. 304 How to Play Ice Hockey. 
No. 154 Field Hockey. 
(Lawn Hockey. 
No. 188 < Parlor Hockey. 
(Garden Hockey. 
No. 180 Ring Hockey. 

HOCKEY AUXILIARY 
No. 256 Official Handbook Ontario 
Hockey Association. 

Group VII. Basket Bail 

No. 7 Spalding's Official Basket 

Ball Guide. 
No. 7a Spalding's Official Women's 

Basket Ball Guide. 
No. 193 How to Play Basket Ball. 
BASKET BALL AUXILIARY 
No. 323 Official Collegiate Basket Ball 

Handbook. 



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Group Vill. lacrosse 

No. 8 Spalding's Official Lacrosse 

Guide. 
No. 201 How to Play Lacrosse. 

Group IX. indoor Base Ball 

No. 9 Spalditig's Official Indoor Base 
Ball Gicide. 

Groap X. Polo 

No. 10 Spalding's Official Roller Polo 

Guide. 
No. 129 Water Polo. 
No. 199 Equestrian Polo. 

Croup XI. Miscellaneous Games 

No. 248 Archery. 
No. 138 Croquet. 
No, 271 Roque. 

f Racquets. 
No. 194 < Squash- Racquets. 

(Court Tennis. 
No. 13 Hand Ball. 
No. 167 Quoits, 
No. 170 Push Ball. 
No, 14 Curling. 
No. 207 Lav/n Bowls. 
No. 188 Lawn Games. 
No, 189 Children's Games. 
No. 341 How to Bowl. 

Group XII. Alhlelics 

No. 12 Spalding's Official Athletic 

Almanac. 
No, 12a Spalding's Official Athletic 

Rules- 
No. 27 College Athletics. 
No. 182 All Around Athletics. 
No. 156 Athletes' Guide. 
No. 87 Athletic Primer. 
No. 273 Olympic Game satAthens, 190^5 
No. 252 How to Sprint. 
No, 255 How to Run 100 Yards. 
No. 174 Distance and Cross Country 

Running. [Thrower, 

No, 259 How to Become a Weight 
No, 55 Official Sporting Rules, [boys. 
No. 246 Athletic Training for School- 
No. 317 Marathon Running, 
No, 331 Schoolyard Athletics, 

ATHLETIC AUXILIARIES 
No. 339 Intercollegiate Official Hand- 
book. 
Y. M. C. A. Official Handbook, 
Public Schools Athletic 
League Official Handbook, 
No, 314 Public Schools Athletic 
League Official Handbook 
— Girls' Branch, 
Official Handbook New York 
Interscholastic Athletic 
Association. 



No, 302 
No. 313 



No. 308 



Group XIII. 



Amietlc 
Accomplishments 



No. 177 How to Swim. 

No. 296 Speed Swimming, 

No, 128 How to Row. 

No. 209 How to Become a Skater. 

No. 178 How to Train for Bicycling. 

No. 23 Canoeing. 

No. 282 Roller Skating Guide. 



Group XIV. 



No. 18 
No. 162 
No. 165 
No. 140 
No, 236 
No. 102 
No, 233 
No. 166 
No. 200 
No. 143 
No. 262 
No. 29 
No, 191 
No. 289 
No. 326 



No. 214 

No. 254 
No. 158 

No. 124 

No. 287 

No, 327 
No, 328 
No, 329 



Manly sport; 

( By Breck.) 



Fencing. 

Boxing. 

Fencing. (BySenac) 

Wrestling. 

How to Wrestle. 

Ground Tumbling. 

Jiu Jitsu. 

How to Swing Indian Cluba. 

Dumb Bell Exercises. 

Indian Clubs and Dumb Bells. 

Medicine Ball Exercises. 

Pulley Weight Exercises. 

How to Punch the Bag. 

Tumbling for Amateurs. 

Professional Wrestling, 

Group XV. Gymnastics 

No. 104 Grading of Gymnastic Exer- 
cises. [Dumb Bell Drills. 

Graded Calisthenics and 

Barnjum Bar Bell Drill. 

Indoor and Outdoor Gym- 
nastic Games. 

How to Become a Gymnast. 

Fancy Dumb Bell and March- 
ing Drills. [Apparatus. 

Pyramid Building Without 

Exercises on the Parallel Bars. 

Pyramid Building with 
Wands, Chairs and Ladders 
GYMNASTIC AUXILIARY 
No. 333 Official Handbook I. C. A. A. 
Gymnasts of America. 

Group XVI. Physical culture 

No. 161 Ten Minutes' Exercise for 

Busy Men. [giene. 

No. 208 Physical Education and Hy- 

No. 149 Scientific Physical Training 

and Care of the Body. 
No. 142 Physical Training Simplified. 
No, 185 Hints on Health. 
No. 213 285 Health Answers. 
No, 238 Muscle Building. [ning. 

No, 234 School Tactics and Maze Run- 
No, 261 Tensing Exercises, [nasties. 
No, 285 Health by Muscular Gym- 
No, 288 Indigestion Treated by Gym- 
No. 290 Get Well: Keep Well, [nasties. 
No. 325 Twenty-Minute Exercises. 
No. 330 Physical Training for the 
School and Class Room. 



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Group I Base Ball 

\o. 1— Spalding's Official 
Base Ball Guide. 

The leading Base Ball 
annual of the country, and 
the official authoi-ity of 
the game. Contains the 
official playing rules, with 
an explanatory index of the 
rules compiled by Mr. A. G-. 
Spalding; pictures of all 
the teams in the National, 
American and minor leagues ; re- 
views of the season; college Base Ball, 
and a great deal of interesting in- 
formation. Price 10 cents. 

No. lA — Spaldins:'s Official 
Base Ball Record. 

Something new in Base Ball. Con- 
tains records of all kinds from the be- 
ginning of the National League and 
official averages of all professional or- 
ganizations for past season. Illustrated 
with pictures of leading teams and 
players. Price 10 cents. 

No. 302— How to Play Base 
Ball. 

Edited by Tim Murnane. New and 
revised edition. Illustrated with pic- 
tures showing how all the various 
curves and drops are thrown and por- 
traits of leading players. Price 10 cents. 

No. 223— How to Bat. 

There is no better way of becoming 
a proficient batter than by reading this 
book and practising the directions. 
Numerous illustrations. Price 10 cents. 

No. 232— How to Run the 
Bases. 

This book gives clear and concise 
directions for excelling as a base run- 
ner; tells when to run and when not to 
do so; how and when to slide; team 
work on the bases; in fact, every point 
of the game is thoroughly explained. 
Illustrated. Price 10 cents. 

No. 230— How to Pitch. 

A new, up-to-date book. Its contents 
are the practical teaching of men who 
have reached the top as pitchers, and 
who know how to impart a knowledge 
of their art. AH the big leagues' 
pitchers are shown. Price 10 cents. 



\o. 229— How to Catch. 

Every boy who has hopes of being a 
clever catcher should read how well- 
known players cover their position. 
Pictures of all the noted catchers in 
the big leagues. Price 10 cents. 

No. 225— How to Play First 
Base. 

Illustrated with pictures of all the 
prominent first basemen. Price 10 cents. 

No. 226— How to Play Second 
Base. 

The ideas of the best second basemen 
have been incorporated in this book for 
the especial benefit of boys who want 
to know the fine points of play at this 
point of the diamond. Price 10 cents. 

No. 227— How to Play Third 
Base. 

Third base is, in some respects, the 
most important of the infield. All the 
points explained. Price 10 cents. 

No. 22S— How to Play Short- 
stop. 

Shortstop is one of the hardest posi- 
tions on the infield to fill, and quick 
thought and quick action are necessary 
for a player who expects to make good 
as a shortstop. Illus Price 10 cents 

No. 224— How to Play the 
Outfleld. 

An invaluable guide for the out- 
fielder. Price 10 cents. 

No. 231— How to Coach; How 
to Captain a Team; Ho^w 
to Manage a Team; Ho^v 
to Umpire; Ho^v to Or- 
ganize a fjcague; Tech- 
nical Terms of Base Ball. 
A useful guide. Price 10 cents. 

No 219 — Ready Reckoner of 
Base Ball Percentages. 

To supply a demand for a book which 
would show the percentage of clubs 
without recourse to thearduous work of 
tiguring.the publishers had these tables 
compiled by an expert. Price 10 cents. 

BA^£: BALL AUXILIARIES. 
No, 336— Minor Leag'ue Base 
Ball Guide, 

The minors' own guide. Edited by 
President T. H. Murnane, of the New 
England League. Price 10 cent? 



SPALDING ATHLETIC LIBRARY 



No. 3»S— Official Handbook 
of tlie National Leagrne 
of Professional Base Ball 
Clubs. 

Contains the Constitution, By-Laws. 
Official Rules. Averages, and schedule 
of the National League for the current 
year, together with list of club officers 
and reports of the annual meetings of 
the League. Price 10 cents. 

No. 340— Official Handbook 
National Playgrronnd Ball 
Association. 

This game is specially adapted for 
playgrounds, parks, etc., is spreading 
rapidly. The book contains a descrip- 
tion of the game, rules and list of 
Price 10 cents. 



Group 11. Foot Ball 



No. 2— Spal<lins:'s 
Foot Ball Guide. 



Official 




Edited by Walter Camp, 
Contains the new rules, 
with diagram of field; All- 
America teams as selected 
by the leading authorities; 
reviews of the game from 
various sections of the 
country; scores; pictures. 
Price 10 cents. 



No. 334— Code of the Foot 
Ball Rules. 

This book is meant for the use of 
officials, to help them to refresh their 
memories before a game and to afford 
them a quick means of ascertaining a 
point during a game. It also gives a 
ready means of finding a rule in the 
Official Rule Book, and is of great help 
to a player in studying the Rules. 
Compiled by C.W. Short, Harvard, 1908. 
Price 10 cents. 

No. 334— How to Play Foot 
Ball. 

Edited by Walter Camp, of Yale. 
Everything that a beginner wants to 
know and many points that an expert 
will be glad to learn. Snapshots of 
leading teams and players in action, 
with comments by Walter Camp. 
Price 10 cents. 




No. 2A— Spaldingr's Official 
Association. Soccer Foot 
Ball Guide. 

A complete and up-to- 
date guide to the ''Soccer" 
game in the United States, 
containing instructions for 
playing the game, official 
rules, and interesting 
new^ from all parts of the 
country. Illustrated. Price 
10 cents. 

No. 286— How to Play Soc- 
cer. 

How each position should be played, 
written by the best player in England 
in his respective position, and illus- 
trated with full-page photographs of 
players in action. Price 10 cents. 

FOOT BALL. AUXILIARIES. 

No. 332— Spalding's Official 
Canadian Foot Ball 

Guide. 

The official book of the game in Can- 
ada. Price 10 cents. 

No. .3.35— Spalding's Official 
Rugby Foot Ball Guide. 

Contains the official rules under 
which the game is played in England 
and by the California schools and col- 
leges. Also instructions for playing 
the various positions on a team. Illus- 
trated with action pictures of leading 
teams and players. Price 10 cents. 



Group III. Cricket 

No. 3— Spalding's Official 
Cricket Guide. 

The most complete year 
book of the game that has 
ever been published in 
America. Reports of 
special matches, official 
rules and pictures of all 
the leading teams. Price 
10 cents. 



No. 377— Cricket; and How 
to Play it. 

By Prince Ranjitsinhji. The game 
described concisely and illustrated with 
full-page pictures posed especially for 
this book. Pr>>e 10 cents. 




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Group IV. 



Lawn 
Tennis 



No. 4— Spalding's Official 
L.a,Tvii Tennis Annual. 

Contents include reports 
of all important tourna- 
ments; official ranking 
from 1885 to date; laws of 
lawn tennis; instructions 
for handicapping; deci- 
sions on doubtful points; 
management of tourna- 
ments; directory of clubs; 
laying out and keeping a court. Illus- 
trated. Price 10 cents. 





to Play Lawn 



No. 157— How 
Tennis. 

A complete description of lawn ten- 
nis; a lesson for beginners and direc- 
tions telling how to make the most im- 
portant strokes. Illustrated. Price 
10 cents. 



No, 279— Strokes and Science 
of L,aTrn Tennis. 

By P. A. Vaile, a leading authority 
on the game in Great Britain. Every 
stroke in the game is accurately illus- 
trated and analyzed by the author. 
Price 10 cents. 



Golf 



Official 



Group V. 

No. 5— Spalding's 
Golf Guide. 

Contains records of all 
important tournaments, 
articles on the game in 
various sections of the 
country, pictures of prom- 
inent players, official play- 
ing rules and geneoBl 
items of interest. Price 
10 cents. 



No. 276— How to Play Golf. 

By James Braid and Harry Vardon, 
the world's two greatest players tell 
how they play the game, with numer- 
ous full-page pictures of them taken 
on the links. Price 10 centa. 




Group VI. Hockey 

No. 6— Spalding's Official Ice 
Hocliey Guide. 

The official year book of 
the game. Contains the 
official rules, pictures of 
leading teams and players, 
records, review of the 
season, reports from dif" 
ferent sections of the 
United States and Canada. 
Price 10 cents. 

No. 304— How to Play Ice 
Hockey. 

Contains a description of the duties 
of each player. Illustrated. Price 10 
cents. 

No. 154— Field Hockey. 

Prominent in the sports at Vassar, 
Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr and other 
leading colleges. Price 10 cents. 

No. 1S8 — Lawn Hockey, 
Parlor Hockey, Garden 
Hockey. 

Containing the rules for each game. 
Illustrated. Price 10 cents. 

No. ISO— Ring Hockey. 

A new game for the gymnasium. 
Exciting as basket ball. Price 10 cents. 

HOCKEY AUXILIARY. 

No. 25<>— Olticial Handbook 
of the Ontario Hockey 
Association. 

Contains the offic/al rules of the 
Association, constitution, rules of com- 
petition, list of officers, and pictures of 
leading players. Price 10 cents. 



Group VII. 



Basket 
Ball 



No. 7— Spalding's Official 
Basket Ball Guide. 

Edited by George T. 
Hepbron. Contains the 
revised official rules, de- 
cisions on disputed points, 
records of prominent 
teams, reports on the game 
from various parts of the 
country. Illustrated. Price 
10 cent?. 




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]Vo. 7A— Spaldinar's Official 
Women's Basket Hall 
Guide. 

Edited by Miss Senda Berenson, of 
Smith College. Contains the official 
playing rules and special articles on 
the game by prominent authorities. 
Illustrated. Price 10 cents. 

Xo, 1f)r^— How to Play Basket 
Call. 

By G. T. Hepbron. editor of the 
Ofiicial Basket Ball Guide. Illustrated 
with scenes of action. Price 10 cents. 



Polo 




BASKET BALL 



AUXILIARY. 
Basket 



No. 323— Collegiate 
Ball Handl^ook. 

The official publication of the Colle- 
giate Basket Ball Association. Con- 
tains the official rules, records, All- 
America selections, reviews, and pic- 
tures. Edited by H. A. Fisher, of 
Columbia. Price 10 cents. 

Group VIII. Lacrosse 

No. 8— Spalali lift's Official La- 
crosse Giiijie. 

Contains the constitution, by-laws, 
playing- rules, list of fifficers and records 
of the U. S. Intei--ColIegiate Lacrosse 
League. Price 10 cents. 

]\o. am— HoTT to Play La- 
crosse. 

Every position is thoroughly ex- 
plained in a most simple and concise 
manner, rendering it the best manual 
of the game ever published. Illus- 
trated with numerous snapshots of im- 
portant plays. Price 10 cents. 



Group IX. 



Indoor 
Base Ball 



No. 9— Spalilins's Official In- 
door Base Ball Guide. 

America's national game 
is now vieing with other 
indoor games as a winter 
pastime. This book con- 
tains the playing rules, 
pictures of leading teams, 
and interesting articles on 
the game by leading au- 
thorities on the subject. 
Price 10 cents. 




Group X. 

No. lO— Spalding's 
Official Roller 
Polo Guide. 

Edited by J. C. Morse. 
A full description of the 
game; official rules, re- 
cords; pictures of promi- 
nent players. Price IC cents 



Xo. 129— Water Polo. 

The contents of this book treat of 
every detail, the individual work of ttie 
players, the practice of the team, how 
to throw the ball, with illustrations and 
many valuable hints. Price 10 cents. 

No. 199— Eauestrian Polo. 

Compiled by H. L. Fitzpatrick of the 
New York Sun. Illustrated with por- 
traits of leading players, and contains 
most useful information for polo play- 
ers. Price 10 cents. 



_, ^^ Mlscellane- 
GroupXL ous Games 

\o. 271— Spalding's Official 
Rouue Guide. 

The official publication of the Na- 
tional RoQue Association of America. 
Contains a description of the courts 
and their construction, diagrams, illus- 
trations, rules and valuable informa- 
tion. Price 10 cents. 

\o. 13S— Spaldingr's Official 
Crpquet Guide 

Contains directions for playing, dia- 
grams of important strokes, description 
of grounds, instructions for the begin- 
ner, terms used in the game, and the 
official playing rules. Price 10 cents, 

JMo. 341— How to Bowl. 

The contents include : diagrams of 
effective deliveries ; hints to begin- 
ners : how to score; official rules; 
spares, how they are made ; rules for 
cocked hat, quintet, cocked hat and 
feather, battle game, etc. Price 
10 cents. 



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No. 24S— Arcliery. 

A new and up-to-date book on this 
fascinating pastime. The several 
varieties of archery; instructions for 
shooting; how to select implements; 
how to score; and a great deal of inter- 
esting information. Illustrated. Price 
10 cents. 

No. 194 — Racquets, Sqaash- 
Racquets and Court Ten- 
nis. 

How to play each game is thoroughly 
explained, and all the difficult strokes 
sho^vn by special photographs taken 
especially for this book. Contains the 
official rules for each game. Price 10 
cents. 

No. 167— Q,uoits. 

Contains a description of the plays 
used by experts and the official rules. 
Illustrated. Price 10 cents. 

No. 170— Push Ball. 

This book contains the official rules 
and a sketch of the game; illustrated. 
Price 10 cents. 

No. 13— How to Play Hand 
Ball. 

By the world's champion, Michael 
Egan. Every play is thoroughly ex- 
plained by text and diagram. Illus- 
trated. Price 10 cents. 

No. 14— Curling. 

A short history of this famous Scot- 
tish pastime, with instructions for 
play, rules of the game, definitions of 
terms and diagrams of different shots. 
Price 10 cents. 

• 
No. 207— BoTvling- on tlie 
Green; or, Lavvn BotpIs. 

How to construct a green; how to 
play the game, and the official rules 
of the Scottish Bowling Association. 
Illustrated. Price 10 cents. 

No. 189— Children's Games. 

These games are intended for use at 
recesses, and all but the team games 
have been adapted to large classes 
Suitable for children from three to 
eight years, and include a great variety 
Price 10 cents. 




Scotch, 



No. ISS— Lawn Gaines. 

Lawn Hockey, Garden Hockey, Hand 
Tennis, Tether Tennis; also Volley 
Ball, Parlor Hockey. Badminton, Bas- 
ket Goal. Price 10 cents. 

Group XII. Athletics 

Xo. 12— Spalding's Official 
Athletic Almanac. 

Compiled by J. E. Sulli- 
van, President of the Ama- 
teur Athletic Union. The 
only annual publication 
now issued that contains 
a complete list of amateur I 
best-on-records; intercol- 
legiate, swjmmin^r, inter- 
scholastic, Enf>iish, Irish, 
Swedish, Continental, South African, 
Australasian; numerous photos of in- 
dividual athletes and leading athletic 
teams. Price 10 cents. 

No. 12A— Spalding's Official 
Athletic B.ules. 

The A. A. U. is the governing body 
of athletes iri the United States of 
America, and all games must be held 
under its rules, which are exclusively 
published in this handbook, and a copy 
should be in the hands of every athlete 
and every club officer in America. 
Price 10 cents. 

No. 27— College Athletics. 

M. C. Murphy, the well-known ath- 
letic trainer, now with Pennsylvania, 
the author of this book, has written it 
especially for the schoolboy and college 
man, but it is invaluable for the athlete 
who wishes to excel in any branch of 
athletic sport; profusely illustrated. 
Price 10 cents. 

No. 1S2— Ail-Around Ath- 
letics. 

Gives in full the method of scoring 
the All- Around Championship; how to 
train for the AU-Around Champion- 
ship. Illustrated. Price 10 cents. 

\o. 15«— Athlete's Guide. 

Full instructions for the beginner, 
telling how to sprint, hurdle, jump and 
throw weights, general hints on train- 
ing; valuable advice to beginners and 
important A. A. U. rules and their ex- 
planations, while the pictui-es comprise 
many scenes of champions in action. 
Price 10 cents. 



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No. ST.*?— The Olympic Games 
at Athens. 

A complete account of the Olympic 
Games of 1906, at Athens, the greatest 
International Athletic Contest ever 
held. Compiled by J. E. Sullivan, 
Special United States Commissioner to 
the Olympic Games. Price 10 cents. 

No. ST— Athletic Primer. 

Edited by J. E. Sullivan.Ex-President 
of the Amateur Athletic Union. Tells 
how to organize an athletic club, how 
to conduct an athletic meeting, and 
g'ives rules for the government of ath- 
letic meetings; contents also include 
directions for laying out athletic 
grounds, and a very instructive article 
on training. Price 10 cents. 

No. 252— How to Sprint. 

Every athlete who aspires to be a 
sprinter can study this book to advan- 
tage. Price 10 cents. 

No. 255— How to Run 100 
Yards. 

By J. W. Morton, the noted British 
champion. Many of Mr. Morton's 
methods of training are novel to 
American athletes, but his success is 
the best tribute to their worth. Illus- 
trated. Price 10 cents. 

No. 174 — Distance and Cross- 
country Running*. 

By George Orton, the famous Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania runner. The 
quarter, half, mile, the longer dis- 
tances, and cross-country running and 
steeplechasing, with instructions for 
training; pictures of leading athletes 
in action, with comments by the editors 
Price 10 cents. 

No. 259— Weight Throwing:. 

Probably no otUer man in the world 
has had the varied and long experience 
of James S. Mitchel, the author, in the 
weight throwing department of ath- 
letics. The book gives valuable infor- 
mation not only for the novice, but for 
the expert as well. Price 10 cents. 

No. 24G— Athletic Training 
for Schoolboys. 

By Geo. W. Orton. Each event in the 
intercollegiate programme is treated 
of separately. Price 10 cents. 



l\o. 55— Official Sporting 
Rules. 

Contains rules not found in other 
publications for the government of 
many sports; rules for wrestling, 
shuffleboard, snowshoeing, profes- 
sional racing, pigeon shooting, dog 
racing, pistol and revolver shooting, 
British water polo rules, Rugby foot 
ball rules. Price 10 cents. 

No. 331— Schoolyard Ath- 
letics. 

By J. E. Sullivan, Ex-President Ama- 
teur Athletic Union and member of 
Board of Education of Greater New 
York. An invaluable handbook for 
the teacher and the pupil. Gives a 
systematic plan for conducting school 
athletic contests and instructs how to 
prepare for the various events. Illus- 
trated. Price 10 cents. 



No. 317 — Marathon Running. 

A new and up-to-date book on this 
popular pastime. Contains pictures 
of the leading Marathon runners, 
methods of training, and best times 
made in various Marathon events. 
Price 10 cents. 



ATHLETIC AUXILIARIES. 
No. 339— Official Intercolle- 
giate A. A. A. A. Handbook. 

Contains constitution, by-laws, and 
laws of athletics; records from 1876 to 
date. Price 10 cents. 



No. 308- Official Handbook 
NcT^' York: Interschol- 
astic Athletic Associa- 
tion. 

Contains the Association's records, 
constitution and by-laws and other 
information. Price 10 cents. 



\o. 302— Official Y.M.C.A. 
Handbook. 

Contains the official rules governing 
all sports under the jurisdiction of the 
Y. M. C. A., official Y. M. C. A. scoring 
tables, pentathlon rules, pictures of 
leading Y. M. C. A. athletes. Price 
10 cents. 



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No. 313— Official Handbook 
of the Pnlilic Schools 
Athletic League. 

Edited by Dr. C. Ward Crampton, 
director of physical education in the 
Public Schools of Greater New York. 
Illustrated, Price 10 cents. 

No. 314— Official Handbook 
Girls' Branch of the 
Public Schools Athletic 
League. 

The official publication. Contains': 
constitution and by-laws, list of offi- 
cers, donors, founders, life and annual 
members, reports and illustrations. 
Price 10 cents. 



Group XIII. Athletic 
Accomplishments 

No. 177— How to Swim, 

Will interest the expert as well as 
the novice; the illustrations were made 
from photographs especially posed, 
showing the swimmer in clear water; 
a valuable feature is the series of 
"land drill " exercises for the beginner. 
Price 10 cents. 

No. a9G— Speed STFimming. 

By Champion C. M. Daniels of the 
New York Athletic Club team, holder 
of numerous American records, and the 
best swimmer in America qualified to 
write on the subject. Any boy should 
be able to increase his speed in the 
water after reading Champion Daniels' 
instructions on the subject. Price 10 
cents. 

No. 128— How to Row. 

By E. J. Giannini, of the New York 
Athletic Club, one of America's most 
famous amateur oarsmen and cham- 
pions. Shows how to hold the oars, 
the finish of the stroke and other valu- 
able information. Price 10 cents. 

No. 23— Canoeing. 

Paddling, sailing, cruising and rac- 
ing canoes and their uses; with hints 
on rig and management; the choice of 
a canoe; sailing canoes, racing regula- 
tions; canoeing and camping. Fully 
illustrated. Price 10 cents. 



No. 200— HoTV to Become a 
Skater. 

Contains advice for beginners; how 
to become a figure skater, showing how 
to do all the different tricks of the best 
figure skaters. Pictures of prominent 
skaters and numerous diagrams. Price 
10 cents. 

No. 2S2— Official Roller Skat- 
ing- Guide. 

Directions for becoming a fancy and 
trick roller skater, and rules for roller 
skating. Pictures of prominent trick 
skaters in action. Price 10 cents. 

No. 17S— How to Train for 
Bicycling. 

Gives methods of the best riders 
when training for long or short distance 
races; hints on training. Revised and 
up-to-date in every particular. Price 
10 cents. 

_ „„. Manly 
Group XIV. Sports 

No. 140— Wrestling. 

Catch-as-catch-can style. Seventy 
illustrations of the different holds, pho- 
tographed especially and so described 
that anybody can with little effort learn 
every one. Price 10 cents. 

No. 18 — Fencing. 

By Dr. Edward Breck, of Boston, 
editor of The Swordsman, a promi- 
nent amateur fencer. A book that has 
stood the test of time, and is universally 
acknowledged to be a standard work. 
Illustrated. Price 10 cents. 

No. 1G2— Boxing Guide. 

Contains over 70 pages of illustrations 
showing all the latest blows, posed 
especially for this book under the super- 
vision of a well-known instructor of 
boxing, who makes a specialty of teach- 
ing and knows how to impart his 
knowledge. Price 10 cents. 

No. 165— The Art of Fencing: 

By Regis and Louis Senac, of New 
York, famous instructors and leading 
authorities on the subject. Gives in 
detail how every move should be made» 
Price 10 cents. 



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No. 23C>— How to Wrestle. 

The most complete and up-to-date 
book on wrestling ever published. 
Edited by F. R. Toombs, and devoted 
principally to special poses and illustra- 
tions by Geoi-ge Hackenschmidt, the 
"Russian Lion." Price 10 cents. 



No. 102— Ground Tumbling. 

Any boy, by reading this book and 
following the instructions, can become 
proficient. Price 10 cents. 



No. 2SU— Tumbling: lor Ama- 
teurs. 

Specially compiled for amateurs by 
Dr.JamesT. Gwathmey. Every variety 
of the pastime explained by text and 
pictures, over 100 different positions 
being shown. Price 10 cents. 



to Puncli tlie 



No. 191— How 
Bag-. 

The best treatise on bag punching 
that has ever been printed. Every va- 
riety of blow used in training is shown 
and explained, with a chapter on fancy 
bag punching by a well-known theatri- 
cal bag puncher. Price 10 cents. 



No. 200— Dumb-Bells. 

The best work on dumb-bells that 
has ever been offered. By Prof. G. 
Bojus, of New York. Contains 200 
photographs. Should be in the hands 
of every teacher and pupil of physical 
culture, and is invaluable for home 
exercise. Price 10 cents. 



Clubs and 



No. 143— Indian 
Dumb-Bells. 

By America's amateur champion club 
swinger, J. H. Dougherty. It is clearly 
illustrated, by which any novice can 
become an expert. Price 10 Gents. 



No. 262— Medicine Ball Ex- 
ercises. 

A series of plain and practical exer- 
cises with the medicine ball, suitable 
for boys and girls, business and profes- 
sional men, in and out of gymnasium. 
Price 10 cents. 



Xo. 20— Pulley AVeiglit Exer- 
cises. 

By Dr. Henry S. Anderson, instructor 
in heavy gymnastics Yale gymnasium. 
In conjunction with a chest machine 
anyone with this book can become 
perfectly developed. Price 10 cents. 



\o. 233— Jiu Jitsu. 

Each move thoroughly explained and 
illustrated with numerous full-page 
pictures of Messrs. A. Minami and K. 
Koyama, two of the most famous ex- 
ponents of the art of Jiu Jitsu, who 
posed especially for this book. Price 
10 cents. 



IVo. 166— How to Swingr In- 
dian Clubs. 

By Prof. E. B. Warman. By follow- 
ing the directions carefully anyone can 
become an expert. Price 10 cents. 

\o. 326— Professional Wrest- 
ling;. 

A book devoted to the catch-as-catch- 
can style; illustrated with half-tone 
pictures showing the different holds 
used by Frank Gotch, champion catch- 
as-catch-can wrestler of the world. 
Posed by Dr. Roller and Charles Postl. 
By Ed. W. Smith, Sporting Editor of 
the Chicago American. Price 10 cents. 



Group XV. Gymnastics 

IVo. 104— The Grading: of 
Gymnastic Exercises. 

By G. M. Martin. A book that should 
be in the hands of every physical direc- 
tor of the Y. M. C. A., school, club, col- 
lege, etc. Price 10«cents. 

No. 214— Graded Calistben- 
ics and Dumb-Bell Drills. 

For years it has been the custom in 
most gymnasiums of memorizing a set 
drill, which was never varied. Conse- 
quently the beginner was given the 
same kind and amount as the older 
member. With a view to giving uni- 
formity the present treatise is at- 
tempted. Price 10 cents. 



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No. 254— Barnjum Bar Bell 
Drill. 

Edited by Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, 
Director Physical Training, University 
of Pennsylvania. Profusely illustrated. 
Price 10 cents. 

No. 158— Indoor and Outdoor 
Gymnastic Games. 

A book that will prove valuable to in- 
door and outdoor gymnasiums, schools, 
outings and gatherings where there 
are a number to be amused. Price 10 
cents. 

No. 124 — Hovr to Become a 
Gymnast. 

By Robert Stoll, of the New York 
A. C., the American champion on the 
flying rings from 1885 to 1892. Any boy 
can easily become proficient with a 
little practice. Price 10 cents. 

No. 287— Fancy Dumb Bell 
and Marcliing- Drills. 

All concede that games and recreative 
exercises during the adolescent period 
are preferable to set drills and monoton- 
ous movements. These drills, while de- 
signed primarily for boys, can be used 
successfully with girls and men and 
women. Profusely illustrated. Price 
10 cents. 

No. 327— Pyramid Bnildingr 
Without Apparatus. 

By W. J. Cromie, Instructor of 
Gymnastics, University of Pennsyl- 
vania. With illustrations showing 
many different combinations. This 
book should be in the hands of all gym- 
nasium instructors. Price 10 Cents. 

No. 328— Exercises on tlie 
Parallel Bars. 

By W. J. Cromie. Every gymnast 
should procure a copy of this book. 
Illustrated with cuts showing many 
novel exercises. Price 10 cents. 

No. 329— Pyramid Building: 
Trith Chairs, Wands and 
Ladders. 

By W. J. Cromie. Illustrated with 
half-tone photopraphs showing many 
interesting combinations. Price 10 
cents. 



GYMNASTIC AUXILIARY. 

No. 333— Official Handbook 
Inter-Collegiate Associa- 
tion Amateur Gymnasts 
of America. 

Edited by P. R. Carpenter, Physical 
Director Amherst College. Contains 
pictures of leading teams and individual 
champions, official rules governing con- 
tests, records. Price 10 cents. 



Group XVL 



Physical 
Culture 



No. 161— Ten Minutes' Exei i 
cise for Busy Men. 

By Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, Direc- 
tor of Physical Training in the New 
York Public Schools. A concise and 
complete course of physical education. 
Price 10 cents. 

No. 208— Physical Education 
and Hygiene. 

This is the fifth of the Physical 
Training series, by Prof. E. B. Warman 
(see Nos. 142, 149, 166, 185, 213, 261. 290.) 
Price 10 cents. 



No. 149— The Care of the Body. 

A book that all who value health 
should read and follow its instructions. 
By Prof. E. B. Warman, the well-known 
lecturer and authority on physical cul- 
ture. Price 10 cents. 



No. 142— Physical Training 
Simplified. 

By Prof. E. B. Warman. A complete, 
thorough and practical book where the 
whole man is considered — brain and 
body. Price 10 cents. 



No. 261— Tensing Elxercises. 

By Prof. E. B. Warman. The "Ten- 
sing" or "Resisting" system of mus- 
cular exercises is the most thorough, 
the most complete, the most satisfac- 
tory, and the most fascinating of sys- 
tems. Price 10 cents. 



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No. 185— Health Hints. 

By Prof. E. B. Warman. Health in- 
fluenced by insulation; health influ- 
enced by underwear; health influenced 
by color; exercise. Price 10 cents. 

No. 313—285 Health Answers. 

By Prof. E. B. Warman. Contents: 
ventilating a bedroom; ventiUcing a 
house; how to obtain pure air; bathmg; 
salt water baths at home; a substitute 
for ice water; to cure insomnia, etc., 
etc. Price 10 cents. 

No. 238— Muscle Buildingr. 

By Dr. L. H. Gulick. A complete 
treatise on the correct method of 
acquiring strength. Illustrated. Price 
10 cents. 

No. 234— School Tactics and 
Maze Runningr. 

A series of drills for the use of schools. 
Edited by Dr. Luther Halsey Guliok. 
Price 10 certs. 

No. 325— TT»enty Minnte Ex- 
ercises. 

By Prof. E. B. Warman, with chap- 
ters on " How to Avoid Growing Old," 
and "Fasting; Its Objects and Bene- 
fits," Price 10 cents. 



No. 285— Health; by Muscu- 
lar Gymnastics. 

With hints on right living. By W. J. 
Cromie. If one will practice the exer- 
cises and observe the hints therein 
contained, he will be amply repaid for 
so doing. Price 10 cents. 

No. 238— Indigestion Treated 
by (iyTinnastics 

By W. J. Cromie. If the hints there- 
in contained are observed and the 
exercises faithfully performed great 
relief will be experienced. Price 10 
cents. 

No. 290— Get Well; Keep 
Well. 

By Prof. E. B. Warman, author of a 
number of books in the Spalding Ath- 
letic Library on physical training. 
Price 10 cents. 

\o. 330 — Physical Training 
tor the School and Class 
Room. 

Edited by G. R, Borden, Physical 
Director of the Y. M. C. A., Easton, Pa. 
A book that is for practical work in 
the school room. Illustrated. Price 
10 cents. 




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^. Pony Polo and How to Play It 



; THE GAME AND EQUIPMENT. 

To play championship polo requires more than the ordinary 
skill on horseback, a quick eye and strong muscles, and the use 
of from four to a dozen fast ponies that are broken to the game. 
It is not necessary to have so many ponies nor to be in hard 
training to play polo as a pastime, or even to join a team for the 
minor cups and handicaps at the ordinary country club tourna- 
ments. There is no more agreeable form of equestrianism than 
to take up polo in the informal way, and, quite aside from the new 
material that is constantly being developed from those who take 
up the game purely as an enjoyable exercise, the desultory games 
are encouraged at all the clubs,, among the seniors and juniors 
alike. The American game, with its many intervals of rest, is 
easier on the ponies than polo under Hurlingham rules, yet even 
in England some good sport is furnished by teams of juniors, 
who seldom have more than one pony apiece. But if one aspires 
to a crack team, the more ponies and the faster they are the 
better. 

THE FIELD. 

The game is played on a field of turf, preferably of 950 feet in 
length by 450 feet in width, guarded on the sides but not on the 
ends by a board ten inches in height and usually painted white. 
The game consists in putting a ball through a goal protected by 
the opposing team. There is a goal at each end of the field, in 
the centre, the posts at least ten feet high and placed twenty- 
four feet apart. The teams in championship matches are of four 
a side, but they may be of any number desired. The regular 
game in this country, for teams of four, is of eight periods of 
seven and one-half minutes of actual play each. To win a goal 
counts one and the team having the largest score at the end wins 
the match. 



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Three minutes is allowed between goals and seven minutes 
after the fourth period, or half time, unless otherwise agreed, 
the time out not being counted in the actual play. But under 
Hurlingham rules, the standard in Great Britain and used in 
Canada and California, it is provided that the duration of a 
match shall be one hour, divided into six periods of ten minutes 
each, with an interval of five minutes after the second and 
fourth periods, and an interval of two minutes after the first, 
third and fifth. The greatest difference in the game under the 
Polo Association and Hurlingham rules, aside from matters of 
detail, is that under the latter code players may not be off side. 

OFFICIALS. 
Before beginning play the two captains should agree on a 
referee, timer and scorer, and the home captain will appoint an 
umpire for each goal. At the summons of the referee, the teams 
line up in the middle of the field, each on its own side. When 
the timer gives the signal, after an interval in which he notes 
that the contestants «re on their own sides of the middle line, 
the referee throws in the ball. The play is then continued until 
a goal is made, or the ball goes out of bounds at the sides or 
ends. When the ball crosses the side lines, the referee, from out- 
side the boards, throws it again between the teams, who line up 
as at the start, but about opposite the point where the ball went 
out. If the ball goes out at the end, the team defending the goal 
at that end is entitled to a knock-in, the ball being placed on the 
line where it crossed, but in no case nearer than ten feet to 
the goal posts or to the side boards. No opponent may come 
within fifty feet of the ball when placed for a knock-in, until 
it has been touched by the mallet of the player who is to hit it 

back. 

SCORING. 

A safety stroke counts one-quarter goal against the team 
score and a foul one-half goal, and, in the latter instance, the 
referee may also order the player making the foul out of the 
match. 

Nothing more may be mentioned in the sunnnary of how the 




Copyright, iy03. by A. H. Godfrey. 1123 Broadway, N. Y, 

MR. ALBERT E. KENNEDY. 

Of Philadelphia Club. 

A cut from the side and rear of a galloping pony to send ball in oblique 

direction away from the eroal. 



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game is played, as the points are fully covered in the rules .of 
the Polo Association and in the advice to players, except that 
now play stops at the signal, no matter where the ball may be 
at the moment the gong rings. 

EQUIPMENT. 

The equipment for the game provided by the home club in- 
cludes the goal posts, which must be light enough to break if 
collided with and may be of wood, or of paper, and the balls, 
which, to conform with the rules, shall be of wood, with no other 
covering than white paint, 3^ inches in diameter and not exceed- 
ing 5 ounces in w^eight. The best balls are of willow, for they 
last the longest in play without chipping, and they may be 
obtained in quantities, well seasoned and painted, at any of 
A. G. Spalding & Bros.' stores. The Hurlingham rules call 
for a ball 3^ inches in diameter and not over sV^ ounces in 
weight, and the material of which they must be made is not speci- 
fied. A number of patented balls have been tried, both here and 
abroad, but without supplanting the wooden. ones in the favor of 
the players. 

The mallet is the essential thing and as important as the 
racket in tennis, or the cue in billiards and, as with those 
implements of sport, the individual predilections as to weight 
and length are to be consulted. In polo sticks, however, the 
length varies to suit the height of the pony, but care must be 
taken not to have the mallets so heavy as to be unwieldy. 
Another extreme to avoid is a stick so light as to be too whippy. 
The sticks are of cane, either rattan or malacca, and the heads 
of various sorts of light and durable wood, usually sycamore, 
ash or beech. The sticks may be obtained of any length wanted, 
the usual sizes being from 4 feet to 4 feet 6 inches. When 
mounted and gripping the handle the stick should be just long 
enough to let the head touch the turf. The heads in Great 
Britain are square, with the edges beveled, but many prefer the 
cigar shape which is most often used in the United States. 
They are from yVj to 8^ inches long, ili to 2% inches wide, 
and 1 34 to 2 inches deep. The spring in the stick should be 




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near the head, which should be put on at the angle io suit the 
player. The handles are wrapped with adhesive tape or soft 
leather, and shaped to the palm to aid a firm grip. The flat 
handles are the easiest to hold, but some prefer to have them 
round. A light strap, or a piece of ordinary tape, is looped to 
the handle-butt. The grip is always at the end of the handle, the 
hand being thrust through the loop and the strap twisted around 
the wrist, so that the stick will be close and snug in the palm. 
The one ruling about the sticks is that they shall be such as are 
approved of by the committee, or, in other words, the referee 
may forbid the use of any type that in his judgment may 
jeopardize the safety of the other players or be likely to hurt 
the ponies, which is also the reason for objecting to the players 
using too whippy sticks and for beveling the sharp edges of the 
heads. 

All canes are brittle, especially at the junction of the stick and 
the handle, and it is necessary to have always on hand a number 
of the different sizes. The best styles and a complete line of 
sizes are kept in stock at the stores of A. G. Spalding & Bros. A 
seasoned cane, however, will last a long while, and, as no way 
of overcoming the brittleness is feasible, a chance has to be 
taken about them breaking. To soak the parts which are most 
liable to break in water or oil has been tried, but this increases the 
weight without insuring any longer life to the mallet. Should a 
player drop a mallet he must pick it up himself and he may not 
hit the ball while dismounted for this purpose. When a stick 
breaks, the player must ride to the side or end lines to obtain 
a new one, which may be handed to him by an outsider, but in 
no instance may a stick be brought on the field to a player. 

The clothing for the glme, when heed is paid to a correctness 
in appointments, will be a flannel or silk shirt, with a safety cap 
or soft hat, reinforced to save the head from a mallet blow or 
in falling; white breeches of tweed or some, similar material, 
brown or patent leather butcher boots. The use of gloves is a 
matter of personal comfort, but they are seldom worn. In formal 
matches the players wear the club colors, as the "pink shirt, 




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Westchester Polo Club- 



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canary sash" of the Myopia Hunt Club, and in some cases the 
style of headwear is specified; for example, the stipulation at 
the Country Club of Westchester is "scarlet, white cap," and at 
the St. Louis Country Club "red, white sash and cap." 

No blinkers, or spurs with rowels, are allowed under American 
or Hurlingham rules, nor may a pony blind of an eye be played. 
It is permissible to carry a whip in the rein hand, and the knowl- 
edge that his rider has one is a great moral influence, often 
enough without using it, to keep a lazy or a tricky pony up into 
the game. A long whip is best, and in England the fashion now 
is to have them as long as an American buggy whip. A plain 
double bridle, with bit and bridoon, will give the best results, 
and a standing martingale is customary to keep the pony throwing 
back its head and to go in more collected form. A gag snaffle 
may be needed to keep a pony from carrying the head low, or 
other special arrangement as the occasion may require. A knee 
pad on a saddle is a disadvantage, and a plain flap, the closer the 
better to the pony, is best. The saddle should be lighter than 
the hunting saddle, yet not too small to give a firm and comfort- 
able seat, for in the bendings of the body and sudden swerves of 
the game a player cannot keep his balance unless on a firm foun- 
dation. A surcingle will help to keep the saddle securely in its 
place. 

HOW TO PLAY THE GAME. 

If the ball could be hit without any interference from the 
opponents straight up and down the field, polo would be merely 
a simple and easy form of exercise on horseback, but the oppor- 
tunities for molesting the player in the even tenor of his way 
are as frequent as at football or hockey, which opens the way 
for an unlimited number of strategical plays and combination 
tactics. Moreover, besides the actual hitting of the ball, the 
hustling and racing for its possession are subordinate to the 
control of the pony, and, while in theory the best ponies are 
supposed to know and like the game, as a fact the rider must 
be always in perfect command of his mount under the penalty 
of receiving a fall. In the real game, as the crack teams play it, 




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this element of danger is ever present and it must be boldly faced, 
for there is no place on the field for a timid rider. To be bold in 
the game does not mean that a player shall be foolhardy, or ride 
in a reckless way, and, in the fury of the strife, the spice of danger 
helps to make the game worth the playing. 

Men, as well as the ponies, need a training in the game. When 
first mounted the mallet feels as unmanageable as a telegraph 
pole, and the ball is as hard to hit as though it were only the 
size of a pea. But practise makes perfect, and, literally, the 
young player must walk before he may run. However, even 
before beginning the practise strokes, the player will have to 
learn to ride in polo style, as distinct in its way as the art of 
a finish on the flat or riding a steeplechase. Briefly, the polo 
seat is a happy combination of a grip and balance, with no aid 
whatever from the reins. The beginning should be with a 
"made" pony, for the lessons will be learned more quickly than 
if the horse, as well as the man, is as green as grass. One 
method is to sit with nothing in the hands and have an aid 
drive the pony with long reins in turns and circles. 

The better way is to walk the pony about without the hands 
on the reins, leaning meanwhile from one side to the other and 
forward and back. The pony should then be cantered and 
swayed in half circles by leg pressure and the lightest touch of 
the mouth. The quick turns of the figure of eight should follow 
this and also the turn on the spot when at a hard canter and at 
a gallop. 

When through practise in these evolutions a beginner has 
acquired a confident seat and balance, it will be time to learn 
the use of the mallet. Gripping at th'e end of the handle and 
with the wrist strap properly twisted, the stick should be swung 
about in imaginary strokes until it can be handled without 
clumsiness. The little finger should encircle the end of the 
handle-butt and no part of the stock project beyond the palm. 
If the wrist were allowed to project, on hitting the ball the 
impact would force the protruding part against the wrist and 
cause some pain, besides shortening the swing at the ball. It 
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along, both by taps forward and back, for this helps the eye and 
the suppleness of the wrist, and, moreover, is a maneuver often 
useful in the game to get the ball free from a scramble for its 
possession. When it becomes easy to find the ball and catch it 
squarely with the head of the mallet, learn to hit it when ap- 
proaching at the fast paces. The most important thing to remem- 
ber is that when at speed the ball must be hit when it is at the 
pony's fore-leg. It is a mistake to wait until the ball is in line 
with the stirrup. Care should be taken to avoid hitting the pony 
either on the legs or in the face, otherwise the pony will become 
both ball- and mallet-shy. 

The straight forward stroke at the full length of the arm is 
the easiest to learn and the one called for most frequently in 
playing. It is succeeded by the forward strokes at an angle and 
by the same strokes delivered over the near side of the pony. 
Back-handed strokes must be practised in the same variety and 
also strokes under and over the pony's neck. Then, when the 
full command of the mallet has been gained by assiduous practis- 
ing, the work may be varied by having the ball thrown in from- 
the end and side lines, as it is in the game, so as to learn to 
take quickly. Too much time cannot be given to preliminary 
work, for the greater the facility gained in practise the more 
coolly and easily will the beginner take up the real work when 
called on to show his skill in a match. The half-fledged player, 
especially now that the ponies are broken to the game before 
being brought on the market, is more often met with than one 
who has overdone the schooling tasks. 

Some of the early work may be done in a riding school, but 
the beginner advances the fastest who may practise on a regular 
field and with others who are taking up the same, or who are 
adepts at it and will give to him the benefit of their experience. 
The boys who begin to play on their first ponies, and, in matches 
with rivals of their own own age, imitate the methods of the local 
heroes of the game, learn polo as easily as they do swimming, 
but those who take up the game in adult years must expect to 
serve an apprenticeship of some duration. Given the ability to 
ride at all, there is practically no age limit at which proficiency 




LORD WODEHOUSE, OLD ETONIAN. 
Photo by the Sport and General Illustrations Co. 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 17 

at polo may not be acquired. There are usually as many old 
men as young on the teams that meet for informal play and in 
the minor matches at the clubs throughout the country, and, 
when championship team form is gained in youth it may be kept, 
with a fair amount of practise, nearly as long as a person is 
able to mount a horse. It appeals for these reasons to all who 
love equestrianism and life in the open, and, with the knowledge 
that polo is not an extravagant sport when pursued merely as 
a country recreation, the game is gaining new recruits on every 
side. To be a member of a crack team is a different matter as 
to the money outlay, for the cost and maintenance of a string 
of fast ponies is a considerable item, to which must be added 
the charges for transporting the outfit to the different tourna- 
ments, yet, all told, the expense is not so great as in many 
other sports, while there is a sure return in exercise and health- 
ful excitement. 

The positions of the players on a team and a synopsis of their 
duties may be explained in the following order, first stating. 
that for the line up at the throw-in the backs usually stay well 
behind the others, to be ready to race off to the defense of their 
respective goals, should the occasion require it. 

Number One. — The ruling motive of the player in' this place, 
at every stage of the game, is to watch the opposing back, to 
ride him off and clear the way for his own side when they have 
the ball going toward the goal. In England, where play off- 
side is not allowed, it is held that the weakest hitter may well 
be put in this position, and, indeed, the experiment has been tried 
of playing it without a mallet. Under that rule, should No. i 
seek to go on with the ball, the back has only to pull up to force 
him out of the game by being off-side, but even where Hurling- 
ham rules are in vogue the present idea is that the player should 
lose no opportunity to hit, unless one of his side calls out to 
him to leave the ball. In the American game, with the privilege 
of playing off-side, the No. i is a free lance as to hitting the 
ball, but the desire to do so must not be allowed to interfere 
with the main duty of the player to the team, which is to pre- 
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danger. On this account a clever No. i will leave the ball at 
any time, unless he should be so lucky as to have a clear field, 
to the care of his No. 2 or No. 3, to devote his energies to the 
back, for it is evident that if the latter is kept from the ball the 
taking of the goal should be an easy matter, for ii. will be unde- 
fended unless one of the others of his side may have the unusual 
good fortune to be in time to fill the gap. The position is one 
of self-sacrifice, for except on the chance of the opposing back 
going up with the ball and then losing it, when it usually comes 
back to No. I and gives to him an opportunity to take it through 
the goal, the player is seldom enabled to score on his own hook, 
although he is the most important factor in aiding the others to 
roll up the count. A quick man is needed for No. i, and he 
must have handy and speedy ponies to hold his own in the 
game. 

Number Two. — The ideal player in this position should ride 
and judge pace like a jockey and hit like a blacksmith. It is 
the most independent position, and the player is often termed 
the "flying man" of the team. He must be handy in a scrim- 
mage and an adept in hooking or dribbling the ball out so that 
he may have a fair hit at it, but more often the ball comes to 
him from No. 3 of No. 4, and it is his work to race with it, 
hitting as he gallops, in the endeavor to earn the goal. When 
he can, the No. 2 will hit straight up the field, but he is often 
compelled to go across or around, an effective run sometimes 
being along the boundary boards. The position calls for a 
special judgment and skill in hitting at an angle, as well as the 
ability to get distance when needed in the straightaway plays. 
After such a stroke, or at any time, should No. i get the ball, 
the No. 2 should not be too quick in calling to him to leave it, 
but instead he should at once go after the opposing back, and 
ride him out of the way. In the usual instance, No. i will have 
the back under control and the goal clear for No. 2. An impor- 
tant detail in the work of No. 2 is that if possible he should 
always hit the ball- so as to help No. i in playing it. As an 
example, should No. i be on the right of the rival back. No. 2 
should strike the ball to the right side of the pair, and, if thq 




MR. MORTON W. SMITH. 
Staten Island Polo Club, on " Happy Days." 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 21 

reverse is the position, the ball should be struck to the left side. 
The knowledge that this will be done is a help to the No. i, for 
he will not have to look to see on which 'side the ball is to come 
and he can give up his energies v/ithout distraction to the riding 
off of the back. It is a safe rule under all circumstances to hit 
the ball to the player on your side. 

Number Three. — This player must be ready to help his back 
whenever he is being hard pressed and also be ready to change 
places with him when the back gets an opportunity to make a 
run with the ball. It is also the duty of the half-back, as the 
player is sometimes called, to ride off the opposing No. 2 when 
he can and also to assist the back in fighting off No. i. The 
position, as well as back, requires a player strong at "back- 
handers," and No. 3 has also to act on the aggressive as well as 
the defensive. He will gain many opportunities for thrilling 
runs when playing forward and to score a goal in the utra- 
sensational way after bringing the ball clear down the field. 
Ordinarily, and, in team tactics, the more often the better, the 
No. 3 must be content to pass the ball to his No. 2 and thence 
to be a stumbling block in the path of the opposing No. 2, or 
otherwise of service in his capacity of "general utility" man. 

Number Four. — The back is generally the captain of the team, 
for, although he has the most important of all the positions, the 
other players are in front of him and he can see every move in 
the game. He is always in touch with the progress of the con- 
test and able to direct his players at will. The back should 
have a shifty lot of ponies, well up to riding off work, as well as 
possessing speed. On a fast, handy pony, the back is often able 
to keep up in the game, but with the speed lacking he has to 
stick at the goal. He must be an expert with "back-handers" 
and rely mostly on them in defending goal, It is the saving 
stroke when galloping to guard the goal, but in this case it is 
not wise to hit the ball straight into the pursuing host, unless 
they are so scattered that there is a chance of sending it right 
through the game, but instead he should hit to the side and out 
of the dangerous territory. It is the place of the back to knock 
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will sometimes run up with it, when No. 3 should at once take 
the defense of the goal. Back is sometimes forced, too, to make 
a safety hit, as it is always wise to give a "mickle for a muckle." 
The opposing No. i will always be a thorn in the flesh, yet the 
back, if sure of his half-back, must often take a chance by going 
up into the game and leading the attack. A prudent step is for 
the back to avoid meeting the ball, unless sure of the stroke, 
for a miss will leave the goal defenseless. It is best to turn and 
wait for a "backhander," which is bound to send the ball away 
from the posts and save the goal. 

There is no short cut to learning the game and only steady 
playing will keep a man up to his best. There are some who 
advise dashing at once into the game, once a few "made" ponies 
are bought, in the confidence that the ability to play is only a 
matter of keeping at it. To learn by easy stages, in their opinion, 
teaches fussiness and dilatory ways, but there is nothing in such 
criticisms. To go forward in successive stages, instead, gives 
steadiness in all the strokes and the ability to hit every time. 
The most noticeable stroke of the "self-untaught," to coin a 
title for them, is often the impotent swing that does not send 
the mallet-head within a foot of the ball. 

The best general rule is to always hit to place the ball on the 
side of a team-mate, and when possible to his right side, for if 
there is no opponent on that side he may be able to get in some 
telling strokes. In riding off a player may push with his 
shoulder, provided the elbow be kept close to his side, but he 
must not hustle in any other manner. He may also block the 
ball with any part of his person or with his pony. Before en- 
gaging in a match, the beginner should study the rules, especially 
regarding dangerous riding, the right of way and crossing, and it 
is also wise to read the Hurlingham rules. In the latter code 
there are suggestions to be gleaned by noting the plays that are 
specifically barred, but not mentioned at all in the American 
rules. There is little probability, however, that our poloists will 
ever take up with all on-side play, for in the opinions of our 
players who most often go abroad, the fear of getting off-side kills 
a free and open game. Under Hurlingham rules, the players 




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worry each other and are always pulHng up, while here they are 
always after the ball and racing for its possession. 

POINTS ABOUT THE PONIES. 

While attempts are being made to breed polo ponies in the 
North and some fast ones are claimed for farms in Massachu- 
setts, Rhode Island, New York and Pennsylvania, they are as yet 
only to be classed as costly rarities, and the stock for the game 
must be procured on the ranches of Texas, Wyoming and the 
West, or from California. The American ponies are in demand 
in England, also, of late years, to a limited extent. There, ac- 
cording to Mr. H. L. Herbert, who is thoroughly familiar with 
the British game, while they breed a grand type of weight-carry- 
ing pony on thoroughbred lines, in medium and light-weight 
ponies our Western stock is unsurpassed for hardiness, speed 
and endurance. They are not so good in heavy going as the 
English ponies, however, that have been bred for years from 
sires and dams that had shown the ability to go fast on soft 
turf, due to the many rains. 

The American pony is the product of the ranges, improved by 
breeding to selected sires, often thoroughbred. The original 
stock had been the Spanish horse and afterward the improved 
stock of the Mexicans and of the early settlers from the North. 
The mustang, the wild descendant of the Spanish horse, is now 
virtually extinct. The broncho, the unbroken range horse, fur- 
nishes many ponies to the East, but the best type of pony has 
been carefully bred from a line of ancestors used in rounding 
up the cattle, or as racing ponies, the noted "quarter horse," 
The West is now short on good horses. A few years ago they 
were so plentiful as to be a drug on the market. The values 
were so low that many owners shot their horses to curtail their 
feed bills, and, about 1896, the breeders generally got rid of their 
stock and started in to raise corn, wheat, etc., as there was no 
longer any profit in raising horses. The outbreak of the Boer 
war, however, created a demand for cavalry mounts, and over 
one hundred thousand horses and ponies were sent from the 
Southwest. This great drain on the supply and the prior in- 




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activity in breeding have restored the vahies on the ranges and 
the effect is felt in the East. 

Although the cost of the ponies has increased, polo is not 
essentially a rich man's game, for all its excitement and fascina- 
tion may be enjoyed at a moderate expense if the player is con- 
tent to use fairly good ponies and to confine himself to home 
grounds. It is the shipping about the country to the tourna- 
ments that piles up the expense and makes imperative a string 
of the best ponies to be had. Mr. Morton W. Smith, o^ the 
^taten Island Polo Club, after expressing a partiality for the 
Texan pony, has written in a letter some interesting comments 
on the ponies. He states : 

"A good Western pony will bring from $250 up to or over 
$3,000, and the treatment it receives is much the same as is 
accorded the race horse in training : that is, when the little fellow 
is being fitted for a tournament. A well-equipped player will have 
from four to eight ponies, while some poloists keep as many as 
thirty, but the stay-at-home player, spoken of above, can enjoy 
very fair sport with two mounts. The polo pony is a somewhat 
unknown quantity not only to the public in general, but to the 
average horseman, so a few remarks concerning the wiry little 
beast will not be out of place. The playing of to-day is so much 
faster than a few years back that the fleetest, stoutest pony is 
required to go the pace and stand the strain. The pony that 
was considered a marvel of speed and clevernes.9 but a short 
while ago, is outclassed for the up-to-date game. The rules of 
play ha«e been altered in such manner that the game at present 
is a succession of short races. The field has been enlarged 
from about seven hundred to nine hundred feet in length, and 
from three hundred and fifty to five hundred feet in width. In 
scampering at full speed over this area, the pony is taxed to its 
utmost during the period that he is required to play, often five 
or seven minutes without a check. 

"A thoroughbred is asked to work, say, from five furlongs to 
four miles, the latter the great exception. The maximum of 
weight carried by a steeplechaser is about one hundred and 
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except where catch-weights are in order. In flat racing eighty- 
four pounds is about the lowest at which- a jockey rides, while 
it is but seldom that a horse is asked to pick up over one hun- 
dred and thirty-three pounds, unless it be at welter-weight. It 
is not often that a thoroughbred is entered in more than two 
or three races a week, while many careful trainers think it un- 
wise to expect that much of their charges. The height of a 
runner ranges ordinarily from I5>2 to i6^ hands, but of course 
stamina and speed are the factors that influence his ability far 
more than his inches. The above rough estimates are given in 
order to draw a comparison between what is required of a race- 
horse and his smaller and less breedier brother of polo specialty. 
A polo pony must not exceed 14.2 hands, as that is the fixed 
limit of height, and the little fellow has to gallop from six to 
eight miles in a game. Players generally, change ponies about 
every five minutes, as a rule. The weight carried is from 140 
to 240 pounds and frequently the pony is played in three tourna- 
ment games a week. His natural toughness, stands him in time 
of need, and the infusion of thoroughbred blood which he usually 
inherits from his sire gives him speed, gameness and courage. 

"The thoroughbred pony is more hot-headed and not as well 
balanced as a pony with a little cold blood in him. The former 
is always 'extended' at speed and therefore not as ready to 
shorten his stride and turn handily. The thoroughbred, more- 
over, has a tendency to lead with the near leg and is not an 
adept at changing the lead. The best 'turners' are those that 
'run under you,' so that when a player sits back the pony will 
shorten his stride, throwing his weight back of his hips and 
getting his legs under him, while his hocks are the pivots on 
which he revolves. To be ranked as first-class, a pony must 
have high speed, be thoroughly mouthed, active, nimble, quick 
to start, and, in short, more or. less of an acrobat. Brains are 
most essential and gameness is always required, for a pony is 
forced into scrimmages where his life and limb are time and 
again endangered. The age of a pony is of small consequence 
provided he is not played when undeveloped nor worked till 




SCENES IN THE CORRAL. 
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antiquated. They are probably at their best from seven to four- 
teen years, and invariably improve after being sent North." 

Before a pony is of any real service in the game it must be 
taught to turn quickly, stand the bumping from other ponies and 
not be shy of the mallets or ball. A "made"' pony, to quote 
briefly the English expert, Captain Hayes, should possess the 
following attributes : 

1. He should be able to start quickly, jump into his bridle at 
once, and strike off from the halt into a canter or gallop. 

2. His mouth should be so "made" that he will go at any rate 
of speed you desire, from the slowest canter to the fastest. 

3. He should be able to pull up to a halt in a very few strides 
when at his greatest speed. 

4. He should be able to change his leading leg the moment he 
gets a hint to do so. 

It is now seldom necessary to break in the ponies to the rudi- 
ments of the game, for it is done at the ranches or by the dealers 
in the East, as it enables them to show a pony off to better ad- 
vantage, and, of course, to get a better price, than if the horse 
needs a ten-acre lot to turn in and begins to buck-jump when 
the rider swings a mallet. At more than one of the ranches 
there are polo fields on which the ponies receive their first les- 
sons and are p*layed in matches between the cow,-punchers. In 
the spring the dealers bring on the ponies in car-load lots to the 
polo centres in the East and a prospective buyer often plays a 
pony in matches before completing the purchase. The wisdom 
of the pony in the game, in the hands of a good player, increases 
with each season that it is used. 

The second education of the ponies, the jfinishing-off touches, 
in the manner taught at the polo farms of England and Ireland, 
has lately been taken up in this country. Hugh Drury is mana- 
ger of such a training farm on Long Island, and approved ponies 
are taken to be scheduled. There is an indoor ring for work in 
inclement weather. There are newly established farms for the 
schooling of the ponies also in Virginia, Texas, Montana and 
Wyoming, but there is room for more and better-equipped places. 
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will keep here a vast sum paid out annually for clever polo nags 
in Great Britain. At Fort Riley, Kansas, there are two polo 
fields, and an attempt is being made to train ponies for the 
game. Some knowledge of value is gained by these ponies in 
actual play, often in matches between the army officers and the 
professo , and students of the United States experimental horse- 
breeding station. 




Photo by Elliott & Fry, London. 

CAPT. F. EGERTON GREEN. 



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Polo In the United States 



INTERNATIONAL MATCHES. 

In 1876, six years after the game had been brought into Eng- 
land by the loth Hussars from India, polo was introduced into 
the United States by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, who organ- 
ized a set of players and had a carload of ponies brought on 
from Texas, which were taken by lot at $20 a head. After prac- 
tising in Dickel's Riding Academy, then on Fifth Avenue, at the 
corner of Thirty-ninth street, the first matches were held in the 
spring on the grounds owned by Mr. Bennett, just above Jerome 
Park. A year later the Westchester Polo Club was organized 
and played at Newport, and, in the same year, the game was 
started at Long Branch by Mr. H, L. Herbert. The game was 
played at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, somewhat later, and in 1880 
the Manhattan Polo Association, which included the clubs then 
about New York, came into existence and opened the grounds at 
Fifth Avenue and iioth Street, where matches were held until 
1883. The Polo Association was formed in 1890 to regulate the 
affairs of the game at the many clubs that had come into being, 
to handicap the players and to fix the dates of the tournaments. 
Its rules are accepted as the authoritative, except in California, 
where the Pacific Coast Polo and Pony Racing Association has 
adopted the Hurlingham rules, and in Canada. 

Sir John Watson's team of English players came to this coun- 
try in 1886 and at Newport, under American rules, won the 
International Polo Challenge Cup, offered by the Westchester 
Polo Club. The Americans were Mr. R. Belmont, Mr. Foxhall 
P. Keene, Mr. W. K. Thorne and Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. 
The cup 'remained in the possession of the Hurlingham Club 
until 1909. In 1900 a scratch team of Americans challenged and 
met defeat, the players being at the time residents abroad. They 
were Foxhall P. Keene, W. and L. McCreery and F. J. Mackey. 



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In 1902 the Polo Association sent a formal challenge. The 
match, the best two in three games, was played in the spring at 
Hurlingham. The Polo Association team won the first, 2 goals 
to I ; the Hurlingham team the second, 6 goals to i, and also the 
third, 7 goals to i. The teams of four were selected from the 
Messrs. Patterson Nickalls, Cecil Nickalls, W. S. Buckmaster, 
E. D. Miller and F. M. Freake, of Hurlingham, and for the. Polo 
Association from Messrs. Foxhall P. Keene, R. L. Agassiz, Law- 
rence Waterbury, J. M. Waterbury, Jr., and John E. Cowdin. 

Early in 1909 H. P. Whitney, as captain, announced that a 
team from the Meadow Brook Club would visit England to take 
part in the tournament of the season in an informal way. There 
was a resolution passed at the annual meeting of the Polo Asso- 
ciation in April, however, expressing confidence in Mr. Whitney's 
team and giving authority to him to officially represent the 
United States if he saw fit to do so in a challenge match for 
the international cup. He had named the Messrs. J. M. Water- 
bury, Jr., L. Waterbury, and Devereaux Milburn as the team. 
There was a challenge forwarded and accepted, and, in a con- 
ference with the Hurlingham Committee, Mr. L. Waterbury, who 
had preceded the others to England, agreed on the dates of 
June 23 and 27 for the first two games; the arrangements for 
the third to depend on the result of earlier matches. 

The Meadow Brook men were at practice on the Hurlingham 
grounds during the last fortnight of May, with the exception of 
Mr. Milburn. L. E. Stoddard of the New Haven Polo Club 
and a Meadow Brook member, who had been enjoying winter 
polo on the Riviera, fortunately arrived in London at this time 
with his ponies, and he volunteered as back until the coming of 
Mr. Mulburn, so that there was no need to impress a British 
player to fill out the team. This line up closed the practice at 
Hurlingham by a special match with a picked team of the home 
club's players, who beat the Americans by 8 goals to 2. 

The result restored the confidence of the British public and 
players in their poloists. This attitude was not affected by the 
victory of the Meadow Brooks at Ranelagh on June 5th over the 
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SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 39 

place as back, and the Americans had moved to Ranelagh in 
anticipation of the annual open cup tournament on that field, 
which began on June 7th. The result of the play attracted atten-. 
tion to the dashing methods of the visitors in individual and 
team tactics and to the excellence of their mounts. It banished 
any feeling of security over the outcome of the international 
cup matches. In the first round of the Ranelagh tournament 
Meadow Brook beat the Beauchamp Hall team, that included 
Foxhall P. Keene and Mr. Stoddard, by 7 goals to 3. The 
second round brought in Meadow Brook winner by 14 goals to i 
from the Count de Madre's Tigers, the team consisting of the 
Count, W. P. Thynne, Col. Chunda Singh and Capt. B. Matthew- 
Lannowe. Roehampton, one of the best teams in Great Britain, 
lost to Meadow Brook in the final by 6 goals to i. 

HOW MEADOWBROOK REGAINED THE CUP. 

The opening game for the international cup took place as 
scheduled at the Hurlingham Club on June 23, but the second 
game, through an unusual sequence of heavy rains, was not 
held until Monday, July 5. The Meadow Brook formation was 
the same in both matches, although, on account of an injury to 
his hand in practice at Ranelagh, on the Saturday before, there 
was for a time a possibility that Mr. Stoddard would play back 
in the second match instead of Mr. Milburn. This was the line- 
up : No. I, L. Waterbury; No. 2, J. M. Waterbury, Jr.; No. 3, 
H. P. Whitney, Captain ; back, Deveroux Milburn. On the Hur- 
lingham team were Captain Herbert Wilson, No. i ; F. M. Freaks, 
No. 2; P. W. Nickalls, No. 3, and Lord Wodehouse, back. The 
latter was an eleventh hour selection, due to the illness of C. D. 
Miller, and W. S. Buckmaster being laid up with a broken arm. 
Capt. E. D. Miller was the American and Major K. MacLaren 
the Hurlingham umpire in both games, while Capt. J. Hardress 
Lloyd was referee in the first and W. S. Buckmaster in the 
second. 

Meadow Brook won the opening match by 9 goals to 5. The 
Hurlingham team did not score until the closing of the third 
period, when the score was 5 to o against them. In the goal- 



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making for the Americans the record was 4 for J. M. Water- 
bury, Jr., 3 for his brother and 2 for Mr. Milburn, while for 
Hurlingham Mr. Nickalls made 2, Capt. Wilson 2 and Mr. Freaks 
I goal. 

In the second game Mr. H. Rich played No. i, instead of Capt. 
Wilson, for Hurlingham, and Capt. Lloyd replaced Lord Wode- 
house as back. The score was 8 goals to 2 in favor of Meadow 
Brook, the cup being regained for America by the aggregate of 
17 goals to 7. H. P. Whitney made the only goal in the first 
period of the second game, and on a free hit from the sixty- 
yard line as a penalty for a foul adjudged against L. Waterbury, 
Capt. Lloyd made a goal in the second period for Hurlingham. 
Now one all, the Americans were on the aggressive in the third 
period, and, aided by good support from his team-mates, J, M. 
Waterbury, Jr., made 3 goals. There was no scoring in the 
fourth period, in which Messrs. Milburn and Whitney were 
brilliant in defence, half time arriving with the tally 4 goals to i 
for Meadow Brook. It was 7 to 2 at the beginning of the final 
period, in which the Americans gained another goal. J. M. 
Waterbury, Jr., made 5, L. Waterbury 2, and Mr. Whitney i 
goal, Mr. Rich and Capt. Lloyd doing the scoring for the home 
team. 

The games were a society function, aside from their promi- 
nence in international sport. After the decisive match the 
Meadow Brook players were presented by the Earl of Ancester 
to the Prince and Princess of Wales in the royal box. The 
Prince,, now King George V., congratulated the winners, and 
handed the international cup, a massive silver trophy two feet 
high, that cost originally over $1,000, to H. P. Whitney as cap- 
tain of the successful challengers. 

THE INTERNATIONAL PONIES. 
It was conceded by the British players and critics that the 
Americans won by their hard-hitting, their skill in meeting the 
ball by a forward stroke, their agility in hitting on either side of 
the pony and in back-handed plays. An advantage was the 
familiarity of the Meadow Brook four with the British "onside" 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 43 

game— Mr. Whitney through playing while abroad each summer 
for the grouse shooting; the Waterburys when with the chal- 
lenging team of 1902, and Mr. Milburn when a student at Ox- 
ford on the university team. 

In the 1902 match the challengers used American ponies, and 
"in heavy going found their mounts to be outclassed by the 
British nags. When Mr. Whitney made up his mind a couple of 
years ago to form a Meadow Brook team for the English tourna- 
ments and as possible international challengers, he became a 
buyer of the best ponies abroad at long prices. Including three 
of Mr. Stoddard's, two of which were English-bred and cost 
him 500 guineas and 350 guineas apiece, Meadow Brook had 
thirty-two ponies at command. They were under the sole 
charge of Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Mr. Whitney's polo groom, and 
it was said at Hurlingham that the foreign ponies would stop, 
turn and start quicker than they used to before having been in 
the United States. 

Of the twenty-nine Meadow Brook ponies those bred in Eng- 
land numbered thirteen ; in Ireland, five ; in the Argentine Re- 
public, two, and nine were American. Seventeen, one being Mr. 
Stoddard's La Sourire, were used in the Hurlingham matches. 
Two only were bred in the United States. Those used were best 
in the heavy going, and if a hot, dry spell of weather had been 
met with, the other American ponies would no doubt have been 
used ; to have two strings to his bow in this respect revealing 
the forethought with which Mr. Whitney planned his foreign 
invasion. The outfit comprised six ponies loaned for the trip by 
American friends of the team — two by Mr. August Belmont, one 
by Mr. J. S. Phipps, one by Mr. J. A. Burden and two by Mr. 
Paul J. Rainey, one of which that stood out being Express, that 
cost him $3,100 at Mr. Keene's sale in 1908. 

The ponies used by the Hurlingham men were the pick of 
Great Britain. The Hon, Frederick E. Guest, who headed the 
committee on mounts, having at his disposal for the trial and 
test matches, besides his own ponies, the best in the strings of 
Mr. Grisar, the Belgian; Count de Madrid, of Spain; Lord Dal- 
meny. Sir William Bass, Lord Victor Paget, Lord Wodehouse, 



44 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

the Duke of Westminster, Capt. Herbert Wilson, and Messrs. 
Walter Jones, E. B. Sheppard, Frank Bellville, The Grenfells, 
P. Bullivant, and S. A. Watt and J. McCann, who sent ponies 
from Ireland. It was the better play and not any social advan- 
tage in their mounts that won for Meadow Brook. 

The championship of the Polo Association was instituted in 
189s, the trophy being a gold cup presented by Mr. William 
Waldorf Astor, through the Tuxedo Club, and the junior cham- 
pionship, the trophy the gift of Mr. Samuel D. Warren, was 
first played in 1900. 



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Polo Association Championships 

1895 — Prospect Park, won by Myopia Hunt Club team— Messrs. 
A. P. Gardner, R. L. Agassiz, R. G. Shaw, 2d ; F. Blackwood Fay. 

1896 — Prospect Park, won by Rockaway Club team — Messrs. 
J. S. Stevens, Foxhall P. Keene, John E. Cowdin, G. P. Eustis. 

1897 — Prospect Park, won by Meadow Brook Club team — 
Messrs. W. C. Eustis, H. P. Whitney, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., 
Benjamin Nicoll. 

1898 — Prospect Park, won by Meadow Brook Club team — 
Messrs. W. C. Eustis, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Columbus C. Bald- 
win, H. P. Whitney. 

1899 — Prospect Park, won by default by Westchester Polo 
Club, Newport team — Messrs. J. M. Waterbury, Jr., Foxhall P. 
Keene, John E. Cowdin, Lawrence Waterbury. 

1900 — Country Club, Brookline, won by Dedham Polo Club — 
Allan Forbes, William H. Goodwin, Edward M. Weld, Joshua 
Crane, Jr. 

Junior championship, won by Country Club of Philadelphia 
team— Messrs. J. B. Lippincott, A. E. Kennedy, M. C. Rosen- 
garten, Jr., J. F. McFadden. 

1901 — Country Club, Brookline, won by Lakewood Polo Club 
team— Messrs. Charles R. Snowden, J. M. Waterbury, Jr., Fox- 
hall P. Keene, Lawrence Waterbury. 

Junior championship, won by the Rockaway Club team — 
Messrs. W. A. Hazard, R. LaMontagne, Jr., R. J. Collier, P. F. 
Collier. 

1902— Saratoga Polo Club, won by Lakewood team, but owing 
to ineligibility of one player the cups were not awarded.. 

Junior championship, won by Rockaway Club team — Messrs. 
A. S. Alexander, R. LaMontagne, Jr.. F. S. Conover, P. F. 
Collier. 

1903— Philadelphia Country Club, won by Country Club of 



46 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

Westchester team — Messrs. John E. Cowdin, J. M. Waterbury, 
Jr., H. P. Whitney, Lawrence Waterbury. 

Junior championship, won by Lakewood Polo Club — George J. 
Gould, Jay Gould, Kingdon Gould and Benjamin Nicoll. 

1904 — Point Judith Club, Narra^ansett Pier, won by Myophia 
Hunt Club team— Messrs. M. Norman, R. C. Shaw, 2d, R. L. 
Agassiz and Devereaux Milburn. 

Junior championship, won by Rockaway Club team — Messrs. 
W. A. Hazard, D. Chauncey, Jr., R. La Montague, Jr., and P. F. 
Collier. 

1905 — Van Cortlandt Park, did not fill. 

Junior championship, won by Bryn Mawr team — Messrs. A. 
Brown, H. W. Harrison, R. E. Strawbrdige and George McFad- 
din. 

1906 — Westchester Polo Club, Newport, won by Meadow 
Brook team — Messrs. E. S. Reynal, J. M. Waterbury, Jr., L. 
Waterbury and R. L. Beeckman. 

Junior championship, won by Bryn Mawr team — W. H. T. 
Huhn, A. Brown, M. G. Rosengarten and C. K. Snowden. 

1907 — Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, 111., won by Rockaway 
Club team — Messrs. J. A. Rawlins, R. La Montague, Jr., Foxhall 
P. Keene and D. Chauncey, Jr. 

Junior championship, won by Bryn Mawr team — Messrs. A. 
Brown, L. L. Dowling, W. H. T. Huhn and M. G. Rosengarten. 

1908— Van Cortlandt Park, did not fill. 

Junior championship, won by New Haven Club team — Messrs. 
J. B. Thomas, Jr., Hugh Drury, L. E. Stoddard, and J. Watson 
Webb. 

1909 — Point Judith Club, Narragansett Pier, won by Meadow 
Brook Club team— Messrs. J. S. Phipps, J. M. Waterbury, Jr., 
L. Waterbury and Devereaux Milburn. 

Junior championship, won by New Haven Club team — Messrs. 
J. B. Thomas, Jr., Hugh Drury, W. L. Goodwin and L. E. 
Stoddard, 



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The Polo Association 

The Chairman of the Polo Association is Mr. H, L. Herbert, 
No. 143 Liberty street, New York City, a position that he has 
been called on to fill each year since the organization has been in 
existence. Mr. W. A. Hazard, No. 29 Broadway, New York City, 
is Secretary and Treasurer. The Committee consists of the 
Chairman, ex-ificio, and Messrs. R. L. Agassiz, John C. Groome, 
W. A. Hazard, August Belmont, H. P. Whitney, Joshua Crane, 
Charles Wheeler and W. W. Keith. 

OFFICERS AND DATES OF THEIR ELECTION. 

Chairman— H. L. Herbert, 1890^ to 191 1. 

Secretary and Treasurer — Douglas Robinson, 1890 to 1893; E. 
C Potter, 1893 to 1898; W. A. Hazard, 1898 to 191 1. 

Committee— O. W. Bird, 1890 to 1900; reelected, 1903 to 1910; 
J. E. Cowdin, 1890 to 1898; T. Hitchcock, Jr., 1890 to 1903; E. 
C. Potter, 1890 to 1898; Douglas Robinson, 1890 to 1893; R. L. 
Agassiz, 1893 to 191 1 ; J. C. Groome, 1898 to 191 1 ; W. A. Hazard, 
1898 to 191 1 ; George J. Gould, 1900 to 1907; Sidney C. Love, 
1904 to 1909; Joshua Crane, 1904 to 191 1; Charles Wheeler, 1904 
to 191 1 ; August Belmont, 1907 to 1911 ; W. W. Keith, 1909 to 
iQii; H. P. Whitney, 1910 to 1911. 

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. 

1. Constitution.— The Polo Association shall consist of an 
Association of Polo clubs, each to be represented by one Dele- 
gate, who shall elect at the Annual Meeting a Committee of Nine 
for the term of one year, from the following localities: Four 
from New York and vicinity, two from Philadelphia and vicinity, 
two from New England and one from the West. 

2. The Committee.— To have the entire control of all matters 
relating to the Polo Association, and shall be the authority for 



48 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

enforcing the rules and deciding all questions relating thereto. 
They shall have the power to appoint all officials for a term not 
exceeding their own, and to make such changes in the rules and 
by-laws as they may consider necessary. The Chairman of the 
Association shall be a member of the Committee ex-oiHcio. 

Any decision of the Committee may, however, be changed by a 
majority vote of the Delegates at a special meeting of same, 
provided that such reversal shall be made by the Delegates 
within thirty days after the matter in question has been acted 
upon by the Committee. 

Special meetings of the Delegates shall be called upon the 
written application of any five of the Delegates, and the Secre- 
tary, shall give at least five days' notice in writing of such meet- 
ing to each Delegate. 

3. Election to Membership. — Every Club and its delegate 
up for election shall be proposed and seconded in writing by 
two delegates, and the election may take place at any meeting 
of the Committee. The election to be determined by ballot. One 
black ball in five to exclude. When any Club shall withdraw 
its delegate his successor shall be proposed, seconded and voted 
for in like manner. 

4. Subscription. — Each Club a member of the Association 
shall pay an annual subscription of $75.00. All subscriptions 
shall become due and payable in advance on May i of each year. 
The subscription remaining unpaid after the ist of June is to 
be considered as in arrear, and no Club whose subscription is 
in arrear shall enjoy any privileges of the Association nor take 
part in any game with members in good standing. 

5. Meetings. — The Annual Meeting of the Association shall 
be held on the second Tuesday in February, at such place in New 
York City as the Committee may designate. The Committee shall 
meet once a month or oftener, from April to September, inclu- 
sive. Three members to constitute a quorum at the Committee 
meetings. 

6. Proxies. — In the absence of a Club delegate the President 
or Secretary of such Club may furnish a written proxy to be 
used at the meeting for which it is named. 



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7. Minutes. — Minutes of the proceedings of every meeting 
shall be taken during their progress by the Secretary; or, in 
case of his absence, as the Chairman shall direct, and be after- 
ward copied into a Minute Book, to be kept for that purpose, 
and after being read at the next meeting, shall be signed by the 
Chairman of that meeting. 

8. The order of business at the Annual Meetings shall be as 
follows : 

1. The noting of the members present. 

2. Reading of minutes of last Annual Meeting, and subse- 

quent special meetings. 

3. Reports of Treasurer and other officers. 

4. Reports of Special Committees, and consideration of any 

resolutions attached thereto. 

5. Election of officers. 

6. Deferred business. 

7. New business. 

The order of business may be suspended on motion, by vote of 
two-thirds of the members present. 

9. Conduct of Members. — In case the conduct^ of a delegate 
be considered injurious to the character or interest of the Asso- 
ciation, in the opinion of any five members, who shall certify the 
same in writing to the Committee, a meeting of the Committee 
shall be held to consider the case. 

If a member whose conduct is in question shall not explain the 
same to the satisfaction of the Committee, or if the Committee, 
acting as Judges, shall be of the opinion that the member has 
committed a breach of the Rules of Polo, or of the By-Laws, or 
been guilty of conduct injurious to the interests of the Associa- 
tion, which ought not to be condoned, they may call upon such 
member to resign, or shall request the Club whose representative 
he is to withdraw him and nominate his successor for election, and 
in event of their neglecting to do so, the Committee shall have 
power to expel him and his Club shall be erased from the list of 
members ; provided, always, that such expulsion shall only be by 
a majority of two-thirds, at a Committee meeting consisting of not 
less than five members. 



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In any case where the expulsion of a delegate is deemed neces- 
sary, the decision of the Committee shall be without appeal and 
the Club so expelled shall have no remedy against the Com- 
mittee. 

ID. A delegate may issue free tickets of admission to members 
of the club he represents good for one week at any Club ground 
durinsf Association week there. 



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American Playing Rules 



GROUND. 

1. Ihe ground should be about 900 feet Ions: by 450 feet wide, 
with a ten-inch guard from end to end on the sides only. 

GOAL POSTS. 

2. The goal posts shall be 24 feet apart, at least 10 feet high, 
and light enough to break if collided with. 

BALLS AND MALLETS. 

3. The ball shall be of wood, with no other covering than 
white paint, s% inches in diameter, and not exceeding 5 ounces 
in weight. 

Mallets shall be such as are approved by the Committee. 

PONIES. 

4. The height of ponies shall not exceed 14.2. 

REGISTRATIOxN. 

5. Any pony may be protested on the field (if possible before 
play begins) by the Field Captain of the side against which the 
pony is offered to be played. Unless a certificate of entry is then 
produced the Referee shall forthwith measure the pony and decide 
the protest. If sustained, the pony shall be ruled off the field for 
the match. Ponies aged five (5) years and upward may be meas- 
ured and registered for life; ponies under five (5) years may be 
registered for the current season only. Any member of the com- 
mittee may measure ponies (not his own) and issue certificates 
of registry. He shall determine the age of the pony. The Com- 
mittee may by vote appoint one or more official measurers, who 
shall have powers hereby given the Committee in respect to the 
measurement of ponies and the issue of certificates. 



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6. The Referee shall exclude from the game any dangerous or 
vicious pony. 

7 No blinkers or spurs with rowels shall be allowed except on 
special occasions, when sanctioned by the committee. 



PERIODS. 

8. A. In match games between teams of four there shall be 
eight (8) periods of seven and a half (/J^^) minutes each, unless 
otherwise agreed. 

B. In match games between teams of three there shall be six 
(6) periods of seven and a half {yYz) minutes each, unless other- 
wise agreed. 

C. In match games between pairs there shall be four (4) peri- 
ods of seven and a half (7^^) minutes each, unless otherwise 
agreed. 

Three minutes shall be allowed between all periods for change 
of ponies except in match games between teams of four, when 
seven (7) minutes shall be allowed at the end of the fourth 
period (half time). 

A saddling bell shall be sounded three (3) minutes before the 
seven (7) minutes have expired. 



ELIGIBILITY. 

9. A member of a club which is a member of the Polo Asso- 
ciation shall not play any match games with or against any club 
which is not a member of the Association, nor shall any player 
play on the team of any club of which he is not a member, except 
on written consent of the Committee, and the approval of the 
captains of the teams entered. 

10. A player shall be handicapped with but one club at a time. 

11. A player shall not play for the same prize on more than 
one team or pair. 

Any player in his first tournament events shall be handicapped 
at not less than one goal and shall so contint'e until changed 
by the Committee. 



SPALDING'S ATULETIO LIBRARY. 53 

ENTRIES. 

12. Entries for tournament events shall be made in writing, 
naming the probable players and substitutes, and be accompanied 
by an entrance fee of ten (lo) dollars for each player, which is 
to be returned if the team plays, otherwise it is forfeited to the 
Association. Entries absolutely close on the day announced. No 
conditional entries shall be received. 

The entrance fee for Championship events shall be one hun- 
dred (100) dollars for each team. 

DRAWINGS. 

13. The drawings for all tournaments shall be made under 
the Bagnall-Wilde system. (This consists of playing a pre- 
liminary round to reduce the number of contesting teams to two, 

four, eight or sixteen, thus eliminating the bye at once, and put- 
ting all contestants on the same footing.) 

UNIFORM. 

14. Captains shall not allow members of their teams to appear 
in the game otherwise than in Club uniform. 

No one shall be allowed to play in tournament or match games 
unless he wears a safety helmet or a regulation polo cap. 

COLORS. 

15. The Polo Association colors are white and dark blue. 

CHAMPIONSHIP. 

16. A. There shall be a Senior and a Junior Championship 
tournament, the latter immediately preceding the former. The 
Senior Championship shall be open to teams without limit of 
handicap. The Junior Championship shall be open to teams 
whose aggregate handicap does not exceed twenty (20) goals, 
but this limit is simply to define the class, and all games in both 
classes shall be played without handicap. 

No player with a higher handicap than five (5) goals on May 
15 shall compete in the Junior Championship. 



54 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

The handicap governing eligibility to Junior Championship 
teams shall be that in force May 15 of the year in which the 
championship events take place. 

B. In both classes the championships may be won by default, 
but in such case no individual trophy shall be added. 

C. Any club which may enter a team in the Senior or Junior 
Championships of the Polo Association Clubs shall nominate 
only players directly identified with such club, and the Committee 
shall be notified of the names of the players composing each team 
not less than ten days preceding the closing of entries. The 
Committee shall then decide with which club any player is eligible 
to compete for the Championship events. 

The Senior and Junior Championships shall be distinctively 
separate events. The winners of the Junior Championship shall 
not have the privilege of an entry in the Senior Championship. 

The Junior Championship shall be played without handicap. 
No individual player shall exceed five goals, and the team handi- 
cap shall not exceed twenty goals. 

The Senior Championship is open to all, without handicap, in- 
cluding players who may have been entered for the Junior Cham- 
pionship. 

The Senior Championship may precede the Junior if the Com- 
mittee so decide. 



FIELD RULES. 

FIELD CAPTAIN. 

1. There shall be a field captain for each team who shall have 
the direction of positions and plays of his men. He shall have 
the sole right to discuss with the Referee questions arising during 
the game and to enter protests with the Referee, provided that 
a player fouled may claim the foul. Other players shall testify 
only when requested by the Referee. 

REFEREE. 

2. The two captains shall agree upon a Referee, whose decision 
shall be final in regard to all questions of actual play, but as re- 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. BS 

pards eligibility of players, handicaps and interpretation of the 
General Rules, an appeal may be made by either captain to the 
Committee whose decision shall be final. 

TIMER AND SCORER. 

3. Two captains shall agree upon a timer and a scorer who 
shall perform their duties under the dierction of the Referee. 

GOAL JUDGES. 

4. The home captain shall appoint two goal judges, acceptable 
to the visiting captain, each of whom shall give testimony to the 
Referee, at the latter's request, in respect to goals and other 
plays near his goal, but the Referee shall make all decisions. 

SUBSTITUTE. 

5. Each team should have a substitute in readiness to play in 
case of accident or disqualification. 

6. When a player is replaced by a substitute he cannot return 
to the team the same day, except to take the place of a player 
who is disabled or disqualified. 

7. When a change of players takes place after a game has 
begun, the handicap of the man having the highest number of 
goals shall be counted. 

CLEAR FIELD. 

8. Only players and Referee shell be allowed upon the ground 
during the progress of the game. 

ENDS. 

9. The choice of ends shall be determined by the toss of a 
coin between the field captains. 

10. Ends shall be changed after every goal. 

THROW-IN. 

11. The Referee shall instruct the Timer to give the signal for 
the commencement of the game. 



56 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

The Referee shall then throw in the ball between the con- 
testants, who shall each be on his own side of the middle line. 

12. The Referee may impose a fine, not exceeding $25 each, 
on any of the members of a team who are not on the ground ready 
to play at the time announced for the game to begin. 

TIME LIMIT. 

13. Play shall stop immediately at the signal at the end of each 
period. 

When play is resumed the ball shall be thrown in at the place 
where the ball was when the signal was given at the end of the 
preceding period. 

When the ball is out of bounds, and the limit of time expires 
before it is put in play, the period ends. 

TIE. 

14. In the event of a tie at the end of the last period, after 
the usual interval, the game shall continue in periods of seven 
and a half (7^) minutes each until a goal or a safety is made 
or a foul penalized, which shall determine the game. 

OUT OF BOUNDS. 

15. When the ball crosses a side line it is out of bounds, and 
shall be put in play by the Referee throwing it between the con- 
testants (lined up as at the beginning of the game) toward the 
middle of the field, and parallel to the goal lines, at the point 
where it went over the boards. He shall throw it from outside 
the side boards. 

KNOCK-IN. 

16. When the ball crosses an end line it is out of bounds, and 
the side defending the goal at the end is entitled to a knock-in, 
the ball being placed on the line at the point where it crossed, 
but in no case nearer to the goal posts or to the side boards 
than ten feet. 

17. A ball must be over and clear of the line to be out. 

18. When the player having the knock-in causes delay, the 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARI. 57 

Referee may throw a ball on the field and call play. No opponent 
shall come within fifty (50) feet of the ball, when placed for a 
knock-in, until the same has been hit by a mallet. As soon as 
the ball is touched by a mallet, after being placed for a knock-in, 
it is in play, and subject to the rules of play. 

SCORE. 

19. (a) A goal counts one point. 

(b) A safety counts minus one-quarter. 

(c) A foul counts minus one-half; and such other penalty as 
the Referee may impose. 

GOAL. 

20. A goal is made when the ball goes over and clear of the 
line between the goal posts, or above the top of the goal posts 
between centre lines. 

SAFETY. 

21. Whenever a player, either accidentally or intentionally, 
gives the ball an impetus with his mallet which carries the ball 
over the goal line he is defending, and it touches nothing except 
the goal post or the ground after leaving his mallet, it shall be 
deemed a safety. 

FOULS. 

22. The Referee shall declare any violation of Rules 26, 27 and 
28 a foul, when seen by him, without waiting to have it clanned ; 
or, when not seen by him, upon evidence satisfactory to him. 

23. He may suspend the player committing the foul for the 
match, but he shall also allow the usual penalty of one-half goal. 

24. When a foul is allowed by the Referee, he may or may 
not stop the game, according to his judgment as to the advantage 
gained or lost by the foul. 

25. In case of a player being disabled by a foul so that he is 
unable to continue, the side which has been fouled shall have the 
option of providing a substitute, or of designating the player on 
the opposite side whose handicap is nearest above that of the 
disabled player, and the former shall thereupon retire from the 
game. This penalty shall be in addition to those hereinbefore 



58 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

provided, and the game shall continue with each side reduced by 
the above withdrawals. 

DANGEROUS RIDING. 

26. Careless or dangerous horsemanship or a lack of considera- 
tion for the safety of others is forbidden. 

The following are examples of riding prohibited under this 
rule : 

(a) Bumping at an angle dangerous to a player or to his 
pony. 

(b) Zigzagging in front of another player riding at a gallop. 

(c) Pulling across or over a pony's forelegs in such a manner 
as to risk tripping the pony. 

RIGHT OF WAY. 

27. A. The right of way is given to the player who has last 
hit the ball or to the player who has entered safely on the line 
of the ball between it and the last hitter, or (as against players 
not in possession of the ball) to the player who is following 
nearer than any other player the line of direction of the ball. 

CROSSING. 
B. A player shall not cross the player having the right ot 
way, except at an unquestionably safe distance ; nor shall he pull 
up in front of the latter unless he is far enough ahead to give 
the latter unquestionably enough time to pull up also ; nor shall 
he pull up across the latter on any consideration whatsoever. 

MEETING. 

28. Whenever two players are riding in opposite directions 
for the ball, each shall leave the ball on his off side. 

OTHER PROHIBITIONS. 

29. A, A player shall not strike an adversary or his pony 
with the hands or mallet, or strike the ball when dismounted. 

B. A player shall not crook his adversary's mallet, unless he 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 59 

is on the same side of the adversary's pony as the ball, or in a 
dicect line behind, and his mallet is neither over or under the 
adversary's pony. The mallet may not be crooked unless his 
adversary is in the act of striking the ball. 

C. A player shall not put his mallet over or under his ad- 
versary's pony either in front or behind, or across the pony's 
forelegs for the purpose of striking at the ball. 

D. A player shall not seize with the hand, strike or push with 
the head, hand, arm, or elbow, but a player may push with his 
shoulder, provided the elbow is kept close to his side. 

E. A player requiring a mallet, pony, or assistance from an 
outside person, during the game shall ride to the end or side 
lines to procure it. No person shall come on the field to assist 
him. 

F. A player shall not hold the ball in his hand, arm, or lap, 
nor shall he kick or hit the ball with any part of his person. He 
may, however, block the ball with any part of his person or 
with his pony. 

FINES. 

30. The Referee shall also have the power to impose a fine 
(the amount to be determined by the Committee) on any team 
or member of a team failing to appear within reasonable time 
of the hour narned for the events for which they have entered, 
or for any misconduct or violation of the rules during the 
progress of the game, and shall report the same in writing to the 
Committee for enforcement. 

ACCIDENT. 

31. In case of an accident to a player or to a pony, or to a 
pony's gear, which in the opinion of the Referee involves danger 
to a player, he shall stop the game. It shall not be stopped for 
a broken or lost mallet, stirrup leather, curb chain, or martingale 
(unless liable to trip a pony). 

BROKEN BALL. 

32. When a ball is broken or trodden into the ground in a 
manner to be unserviceable, in the opinion of the Referee, or 



60 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

when it strikes the Referee or his pony so as, in his opinion, to 
afifect the game seriously, he shall stop the game, and may sub- 
stitute another ball by throwing it toward the middle of the field 
between the players at the point where the event occurred. 

REFEREE'S WHISTLE. 
S3. In all the above cases the play is not suspended until the 
Referee's whistle blows, but the game shall be considered stopped 
at the time the event occurred. The ball, when placed again in 
play, shall be thrown by the Referee toward the middle of the 
field at the point at which the ball was when the event occasion- 
ing the suspension of the game occurred. 

FAILURE TO FINISH. 
34. In the event of a game being stopped by darkness, or for 
any cause which prevents a finish the same day, it shall be re- 
sumed at the point at which it stopped, as to score and position 
of the ball, at the earliest convenient time, unless settled other- 
wise by agreement between the captains. 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 



Polo About the World 

Pofo still flourishes in India, where the game originated. There 
is an India Polo Association and tournaments in the season 
with entries from native and British regimental teams. The 
army players are the mainstay of the South African Polo Asso- 
ciation and of the game in Australia, Bermuda, Malta and Egypt. 
American and English residents play polo in China and Japan. 
The game is established in France, with annual tournaments of 
importance at Paris, Ostend and Cannes, and also in Spain, 
Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Germany and Russia. In 
South America the game is best established in the Argentine 
Republic, and nearly every winter one or more British teams go 
there for matches. 

There were forty-eight tournaments in Great Britain during 
1909, including the international, and 290 teams took part in them. 
The largest entry was of fifteen teams for the County Cup at 
Wembly Park and of fourteen for the Inter-Regimental Cups at 
Hurlingham. It was an unusually rainy season, and on that ac- 
count Hurlingham had to abandon twenty-nine days out of a 
possible seventy-nine, Ranelagh twenty-four of a possible fifty- 
four, and Roehampton had thirty-two blank days. Of leading 
competitions, Kingsbury won the County Cup ; Cambridge the 
inter-University match for the third consecutive year ; the 
Eleventh Huzzars won the Inter-Regimental and were runners- 
up to Roehampton for the Championship Cup, while the best of 
the open tournaments was at Ranelagh, and was won by Meadow 
Brook. 

Dates for thirty-three clubs have been recorded for 1910, 
which means the usual average of about fifty cup events. ^ Polo 
in Great Britain is managed by the Hurlingham Club Polo Com- 
mittee of fifteen, of whom there are representatives of the County 
Polo Association, Army Polo Association, Roehampton, Irish 
Polo Association, Indian Polo Association, South Africa Polo 



62 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

Association and Ranelagh. The committee fills the place of the 
Polo Association in this country with a wider jurisdiction. 

The London Polo Clubs are Hurlingham, now in its thirty- 
seventh season, Ranelagh and Roehampton, the three affiliated 
with the County Polo Association ; the PTouse of Commons Club, 
which plays at Wembley, and the Private Gunnersbury Club on 
Mr. de Rothschild's estate. Including Cambridge and Oxford 
there are forty county clubs with grounds in England and Wales ; 
ten in Ireland and two in Scotland. There are eleven army clubs 
in England and one in Ireland. 

Hurlingham's season is from May I to July 31, with games 
daily, except Sunday. The tournaments are cosmopolitan, 
whether the United States is represented or not, for teams play 
ea:h year from India, Madrid, Budapest, Ostend, Belgium, the 
Ghezireh Club at Cairo and from the Argentine Republic. 



OFFICIAL RULES FO R ALL ATHLETIC SPORTS. 

The following list contains the Group and the Number of the book of 
Spalding's Athletic Library in which the rules wanted are contained. See 
front pages of book for complete list of Spalding's Athletic Library. 



Event. 



All-Round Athletic Cham- 
pionship 

A. A. U. Athletic Rules .... 

A. A. U. Boxing Rules 

A. A. U. Gymnastic Rules.. 

A. A. U. Water Polo Rules. 

A. A. U. Wrestling Rules. . . 

Archery 

Badminton 

Base Ball 

Indoor 

Basket Ball, Official 

Collegiate 

Women's 

Water 

Basket Goal 

Bat Ball 

Betting 

Bowling 

Boxing— A. A. U.. Marquis 
of Queensbury, London 
Prize Ring 

Broadsword (mounted) 

Caledonian Games 

Canoeing 

Children's Games 

Court Tennis 

Cricket 

Croquet 

Curling 

Dog Racing 

Fencing 

Foot Ball 

Code of Rules 

Association (Soccer) 

English Rugby 

Canadian 

Golf 

Golf -Croquet 

Hand Ball 

Hand Polo 

Hand Tennis 

Hitch and Kick 

Hockey 

Ice 

Field 

Garden 

Lawn 

Parlor 

Ring • •••. 

Ontario Hockey Ass n. . . 

Indoor Base Ball 

Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. . 

I.-C. Gymnastic Ass'n 

Lacrosse 

U. S. I.-C. Lacrosse League 



No. 



162 
55 
55 
23 
189 
194 

3 

138 

14 

55 

165 

2 

334 

2a 

55 

332 

5 
188 
13 
188 
194 
55 
304 

6 
154 
188 
188 
188 
55 
256 

9 
307 
333 
201 
337 



Event. 



Lawn Bowls 

Lawn Games 

Lawn Tennis 

Obstacle Races 

Olympic Game Events — Mar- 
athon Race, Stone Throw- 
ing with Impetus, Spear 
Throwing, HellenicMethod 
of Throwing Discus. Dis- 
cus, GreekStylef or Youths 

Pigeon Flying 

Pin Ball 

Playground Ball 

Polo (Equestrian) 

Polo, Rugby 

Polo. Water(A. A. U.).. 

Potato Racing 

Professional Racing, Shef- 
field Rules 

Public Schools Athletic 

League Athletic Rules 

Girls' Branch; including 
Rules for School Games 

Push Ball 

IPushBall, Water 

Quoits 

Racquets 

Revolver Shooting 

Ring Hockey 

Roller Polo 

Roller Skating Rink 

Roque 

Rowing 

Sack Racing 

Shuffleboard 

Skating 

Skittles 

Snowshoeing 

[Squash Racquets 

Swimming 

Tether Tennis 

Three-Legged Race 

Volley Ball 

Wall Scaling 

Walking 

Water Polo (American) 

Water Polo (English) 

Wicket Polo 

Wrestling 

Y. M. C. A. All-Round Test 

Y. M. C. A. Athletic Rules. . 
Y. M. C. A. Hand Ball Rules 
Y.M.C.A. Pentathlon Rules. 
Y.M.C.A. Volley Ball Rules. 



No. 



207 

188 

4 

55 



55 
55 
55 
306 
199 
55 
311 
311 

55 

313 

314 

170 

55 

167 

194 

55 

180 

10 

10 

271 

128 

55 

55 

209 

56 

55 

194 

177 

188 

55 

188 

55 

55 

311 

55 

188 

236 

302 

302 

302 

302 

308 



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SPECIAL NOTICE-We will furnish any of the solid color sweaters listed on this oage with one color body and 

another color (not striped) collar and cuffs in any of the abowe colors on special order, at no extra charge. This doe* 

not apply to the Nos. 3J or 3JB Sweaters. 



SPALDING SPECIAL JACKET SWEATERS 



No CDW. Good quality woisted, 
ribbed knit Camed in stock in Gray 
only. Supplied on special orders in 
JNavy Blue or White only. Ti immed 
edging and cuffs in colots as noted 
above on special orders only. 

Each, 9&.00 it $5 J, 00 Doz, 

Boys' Jacket Sweater 



No. 3J. Standard Weight, Shaker 
knit, pearl buttons. Carried in 
stock and supplied only in Plain 
Gray. iJach, S3.50 * $39.00 Doz. 

Spalding Vest Collar Sweater 




No. 3JB. Boys' jacket sweater, with pearl buttons, 
furnished only in sizes from 30 to 36 inches chest 
measurement. Carried in stock- and supplied only in 
Plain Gray. Each, S3. GO * $33.00 Doz. 



No BG. Best quality worsted, good weight; with 
eAtreme open or low neck. Carried in stock in Gray 
or White only. See list above of colors supplied on 
special orders. ' ' £ach, $6.50 * $60.00 Doz. 



The prices printed in italics opposite items marked with * will be quoted only on orders for one-half dozen or 
more. Quantity -prices NOT allowed on items NOT marked with * 



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o SPALDING COAT JERSEYS ^ 

Following sizes carried in stock regolarly in all qualities : 28 to 44 inch chest. Other sizes at an advanced price. 

We alloiv two inches for stretch in all our Jerseys, and sizes are marked accordingly. 

It i s sug gested, however, that for very heavy men a size about two inches larger than 
-^-—^ coat measurement be ordered to insure a comfortable fit. -^ss^ 

The Spalding Coat Jerseys are made of the 
same worsted yarn from which we manu- 
facture our better grade Jerseys, Nos. lOP 
and 12P, and no pains have been spared to 
turn them out in a well made and attract- 
ive manner. Plain solid colors (not 
striped) ; or one solid color body and 
sleeves, with different color solid trim- 
ming (not striped) on cuffs, collar and 
front edging. Pearl buttons. 




liiiiii 

Nos. IOC and 12C 



STOCK COLORS : Solid Gray, Gray trimmed 
Navy, Gray trimmed Cardinal, Gray trim- 
med Dark Green. See list below oi colors 
supplied on special orders. 




No. I OC. Same grade as No. lOP. I No. I 2C. Same grade as No 12P. I No. 1 OCP. Pockets, otherwise same 
■Each, $3.50 * $36.00 Doz. I Each. $3.00 * $S0.0O Doz. lasNo.lOC. Ea.,»4.00* ^42.00 Doz. 



CPFf^l/IT nPnrDC ^ addition to slock colors mentioned we also supply any oi Uie jerseys listed on this |fage, without 
OF liiV/lnL Ulil/EliiJ extra charge, on special orders only— not carried in stock-in any ol the (allowing colors: 

Gray Black Maroon Cardinal Royal Blue ^ Peacock Blue Olive Green Pink Yellow Old Gold 

Orange White Scarlet Navy Columbia Blue Dark Green Irish Green Purple Seal Brown Drab 

PLAIN COLORS-The above colors are supplied in our worsted jerseys (NOT Nos I2XB, 6*r 6X; at regular prices. Other colors to 

order only in any quality (EXCEPT Nos. I2XB, 6 or 6X) 25c. each extra. 

STRIPES AND TRIMMINGS— Supplied as specified in any ol the above colors (not more than two colors in any garment) at 

regular prices. Other colors to order only in any quality (EXCEPT Nos. I2XB. 6 or 6X) 25c. each extra. 




SPALDING STRIPED AND V-NECK JERSEYS 

No. I OPW. Good quality worsted, same 

grade as No. lOP. Solid color body and 

sleeves, with 6-inch stripe around body. 

•Each, $3.25 ^ $33.00 Doz. 



Stock Colors: Black and Orange, Kavy and 
White, Black and Red, Gray and Cardinal, 
Royal Blue and While, Columbia Blue and 
White, Scarlet and White, Navy and Cardinal, 
Maroon and While. Second color mentioned 
is lor body stripe. See list above ol colors 
supplied on special orders. 



Nos. 10PWand12PW 

No. i2PW. Worsted; solid stock 
color body and sleeves with 6-inch 
stock color stripe around body. 
Colors same as No. IVPW. 

Each, $2.7 5 -^ $30.00 Doz. 

No. I OPX. Good quality worsted, 
fashioned ; solid stock color body, 
with stock color striped sleeves, 
usually alternating two inches of 
same color as body, with narrow 
stripes of any other stock color. 
Colors same as No. lOPW. 

Each, $3.25 -A- $33.00 Doz. 





N0.12PV 

No. 1 2PV. Worsted, solid stock 
colors, with V-neck instead of full 
collar as on regular jerseys. Stock 
colors: Navy Blue, Black, Maroon 
and Gray. See list above of colors 
supplied on special orders. 

Each, $2.75 • $30.00 Doz. 

No. 1 2PX. Worsted, solid color 
body, with striped sleeves, usually 
alternating two inches of same 
color as body, with narrow stripes 
of some other color. Colors same 
as No. lOPW. 



Nos. 10PX and 12PX Each, $2.75 • $30.00 Doz. 

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or more. Quantity pnces NOT allowed on items NOT marked with ir 



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Spalding ncw and improved worsted Jefscy s 

Followlns sizes carried In stock rcsnlarly In all qnalltlcs; 28 to 44 Inch chest. 



We allow two inches Jor stretch in all our Jerseys, and sizes are marked accordingly. It is suggested, 
however, that Jor very heavy men a size about two inches larger than coat measurement be ordered to 

insure a comfortable ft. 




Jerseys are being used now more and more by 
foot ball players instead of canvas jackets. On 
account of the special Spalding knit, they are 
very durable, ar\d at the same time they of er no 
restraint on the free movements of the player. 



STOCK ffllORS PLAIN COLORS— We c«rry in slock 
SlUCn CULUKS ,^ ^„ SfB\iiB9 Stores oar line ol i«orslt4 
Jerseys (NOT Nos. I2XB, 6 or 6X) in following colors: 
White Black Maroon 

Navy Bine Gray Cardinal 



CnDpial OpiIdPC We«lsolamish.wilhoolexlni<*«r5e, 
OpCvlal Vl UCl 3 on special orders only, no) carried in 
stock and NOT supplied in Nos. I2XB, 6 or 6X, the following colors : 
Orange Dark Green Yellow 

Scarlet Olive Green Seal Brown 

Royal Blue Irish Green Old Gold 

Colambia Blue Pink Drab 

Peacock Blue Purple 
Other colors than as noted above to order only In any qnallty 
( EXCEPT Nos. I2XB, 6 and 6X I, 25c. each extra. 
N. B — We designate three shades which are sometimes called RED. 
These are Scarlet. Cardinal and Maroon. Where RED is specified 
on order. Cardinal will be supplied. 




No. I P. Full regular made; that is, fashioned or knit to exact shape on 
the machine and then put together by hand, altogether different from 
cutting them out of a piece of material and sewing them up on a machine 
as are the majority of garments known as Jerseys, Special quality 
worsted. Solid colors. . .Each. 9^. OO -k $42.00 Doz. 

No. I OP. Worsted. fashioned. Solid colors. " 3.00*^50.00 " 

No. I 2P. Worsted; solid colors. . . ■ 2. GO -k $25.20 " 

No. I 2XB. Boys' Jersey. Worsted. Furnished in sizes 26 to 36 inches 
chest measurement only. Solid colors only : White. Navy Blue. Black. 
Gray and Maroon. No special orders. Each, $2.00 * $21.00 Doz. 
SPECIAL NOTICE We will fumisn any of the above solid color 
Jerseys {except Nos. 12XB, 6 and 6X), with one color- body and another color 
(not striped) collar and cnffs in s.tock colors only at no extra charge. 



Nos. IP, 10P and 12P 



I9id 



Spalding Cotton Jerseys 

No. 6. Cotton, good quality, fashioned, roll collar, full length sleeves. 
Cc'ors: Black, Navy Blue, Gray and Maroon only. 

Each. S I .OO • $10.80 Doz. 
No. 6X. Cotton, same as No. 6. but with striped sleeves in following 
combinations only: Navy with White or Red stripe; Black with 
Orange or Red stripe; Maroon with White stripe. 

Each, S 1 .25 • $13.20 Doz. 

Woven Letters, Numerals or Designs 

We uxaoe into our best grade Jcrseya, No. IP. Leilen. NumeraU and Designs in special colors 

OS desired. Prices quoted on application. Designi submitted. 

PRICES SUBJECT TO ADVANCE WITHOUT NOTICE 

The prices printed in italics opposite items marked with * tvill be quoted only on orders for one-half dozen 
or more. Quantity prices NOT allowed on items NOT marked with * 



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sSiS THE SPALDINGlBJTRADEMARK'^Sf 




The <<Mike Murphy" 
Athletic Supporter 

(Patent Applied For) 

Invented by the famous athletic trainer, Michael 
C. Murphy, of the University of Pennsylvania. 
Elastic waist band and mesh front, with elastic 
sides. The latest and best thing in an athletic 
support. 
No. M. Each, 75c. - 



Spalding Supporters 




No. 2. Best Canton flan- 
nel, elastic pieces on side. 
Each, 50c. * $5.00 Doz. 

Spalding 
AU Elastic Supporter 

(Black) 

Madeofgood quality black 
covered elastic. Waist- 
hand six inches wide. Fur- 
nished in small, medium 

and large. 
No. DX. Each, SI. 2 5 




No. 3. Like No. 2, but 

open mesh front. 

Each, 5 Oc. * ^5.00 Doz. 





No. I . Best Canton flan- 
nel, one in box. ' 
Each, 2 5 c . * ^2. 50 Doz. 
No. X. Same as No. 1, but 
cheaper in quality. 
Each, 20c. * $2.00 Doz. 



No. A. Swimming Sup- 
porter. For water polo, 
bathing and swimming. 
Buttons at side and fitted 
with draw-string. 

Each, 50c. 




Spalding Suspensories 

THE "SP4LDING" STYLE 

No. 70. Non-elastic bands, knit- 
ted sack. Each, 25c. 
No. 7 I . Elastic buttock bands, 
knitted sack. Each, 35c. 
No. 7.2. Elastic_^bands, knitteii 
sack. Each, 50c. 
No. 73's. Elastic: bands, silk 
sack. Each, 75c. 
No. 76. Silk bands, finest silk sack 

"OLD POINT COMFORT" STYLE 

No. 2. Lisle thread sack. 

' " Each, 75c. 

No. 3. Fine silk sack, satin trim- 
mings. ' "' Each, $ I .OO 
No. 4. Silk bands, satin trim- 
mings, finest silk sack. Each, $1.25 

BIKE JOCKEY STRAP SUSPENSORY 

For athletes, base ball, foot ball, 
tennis players, etc. All elastic ; 
no buckles. Three sizes: Small, to 
fit waist 22 to 28 inches; Medium, 
30 to 38 inches ; Large,40 to 48 inches. 
No. 5. Each,. 7 5c. * $7.50 Doz. 




Pat. Nov. 30. 1887 



SPECIAL COMBINATION SUSPENSORY 
(ALL ELASTIC) 

Made of same material as in the 
regular Bike Suspensory, but with 
waist-band eight inches wide, pro- 
viding additional support needed 
during rigid training and athletic 
contests. Sizes: Small, 22 to 28 
inches ; Medium, 30 to 38 inches , 
Large. 40 to 48 inches. No. B6. Each, S 1 .50] 






Spalding Leather Abdomen Protector 

jHeavy sole leather, 
well padded with 
J quilted lining and 
non-elastic bands, 
with buckles at 
side and elastic at 
.back. For boxing, 
hockey, foot ball, 
etc. No other supporter necessary 
with this style. No. S. Each, S3. OO 





Spalding 
Aluminum 
Abdomen 
Protector 



Aluminum, 
edges well 
padded with 
rubber. Elas- 
tic cross bands 
and belt. No. 3*. Each, S3. 5 O 
The prices printed in italics opposite items marked with ir will be qtioted only on orders for oyie-half dozen oi* 
more. Quantitxj prices NOT allowed on items NOT marked ivith * 




Spalding Wire Abdomen Protector 

.Heavy wire, well 
padded with wool 
fleece and chamois. 
Leather belt, straps! 
forfastening. Used.' 
with any of our reg- 
ular supporters or 



No. 4, Each, $2.00 



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sfyrxial Canadian Catatosu 



ACCEPT NO 
SUBSTITUTE 



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iTRADEMARK'^'lf.K^ 




SPALDING ELASTIC BANDAGES 

Spalding 
Shoulder Bandage 

Give circumference around 
arm and chest. Mention for 
which shoulder required. 



No. I. 
Cotton thread. 
Each. $4.50 

* $i8.00 Doz. 
No. I A. 

Silk thread. 
Each, $6.00 

* $63.00 Doz. 



Spalding Knee Cap Bandage 

Give circumference below knee, at knee 

and just above knee, and state if light 

or strong pressure is desired. -- " 

No. 4. Cotton thread. '•" 

Each, $ I .GO if $15.00 Doz. 

No. 4A. Silk thread. 

Each, $2.25 ir $2100 Doz. 




No. 
No. 2A. 



Elbow Bandage 

Give circumference 

above and below 

elbow ;stateif for lightorstrongpres^re. 
Cotton thread. "Each, $ 1 .50 * $15.00 Doz. 
Silk thread. " 2.25 * 2i.00 " 





No. 6 Cotton thread. 
No. 6A. Silk thread. 



Spalding Wrist Bandage 

Give circumference around smallest part 
of wrist, and state whether for light or 
strong pressure. 
Each, S .75 -k $7.80 Doz. 
i.OO-k 10.20 " 



Spalding Ankle Bandage 

Give circumference around ankle and over instep; state 

if light or strong pressure is desired. 
No. 6. Cotton thread. 

Each, $ 1 .50 ^ $15.00 Doz. 
No. 5A. Silk thread. 

Each, $2.25 * $2J,.00Doz. 




Spalding Elastic Bandage 




Composed of threads of rubber completely 
covered. The pressure can be applied 
wherever necessary. To fasten insert 

end under last fold. 

No. 30. Width 3 in. , 5 yds. long (stretched). 

Each, $ 1 .00 * $10.20 Doz. 

No.25. Width2%in.,5yds.iong(stretched). 

Each, 75c. •^7. 50 Doz. 



Spalding Elastic Belt Our elastic foot ball belt stretches with the length of body 
and may be attached to jacket and pants, thus forming one continuous suit. By 
closely fitting the body, the opposing player has less chance of tackling. Allows 
perfect freedom in all positions. No. I. Width 6 inches. . . Each, $l.50 
This style belt is used in our No. VTJ Union Foot Ball Suit. 




Spalding Leather Wrist Supporters 




No. 50. Grain leather, lined, single 
strap-and-buckle.. ' -Each, 20c. 

No. I CO. Solid belt leather, tan or 
black, single strap-and-buckle. '25c. 
No. 300. Solid belt leather, tan or 
black, laced fastening ^ach, 25c. 
No. 200. Solid belt leather tan or 
black, double strap-and-buckle 40c. 
No. 400. Genuine pigskin, lined, in 
improved English slitted style. 50_c. 



Spalding Combination Foot Ball Glove 
and Wrist Supporter 

Designed by H. B. Coni- 
bear. Back of hand pro- 
tected by a piece of sole 
leather, and any strain 
to wrist is avoided by 
leather strap supporter 
which forms the upper part of the glove. Made for 
right or left hand. 
No. I. Each, $1.25 




Mike Murphy "Rub In" Athletic Liniment 

This preparation is the same as has been used by Mike Murphy, the famous athletic trainer, in con- 
ditioning the Yale, University of Pennsylvania and other college teams which have been under his 
charge. He is famous for the perfect condition in which he brings his athletes into a contest, and 
the ingredients and proper preparation of his "Rub In" Liniment has been a closely guarded secret. 
He has finally turned the formula over to A. G. Spalding & Bros, with perfect confidence that the 
proper materials will always be used in preparing the liniment and that no considerations will 
induce us to cheapen it in any way. Large bottles., ^ach. 60c. Small bottles. Each, 2 60. 



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K^r THE SPALDING 



WTRADElARParf 



Spalding 

Cold 




HE SUCCESS we 
have met with in put- 
ting out this racket 
accompanied by the 
broadest guarantee 
ever given on an article of this 
kind is the best evidence as to 
the truth of our assertions re- 
garding the great care which 
we exercise in watching every 
detail of its manufacture. The 
racket is sold upon its own 
reputation and the Spalding 
Guarantee is your assurance 
of satisfaction. 

The difference between 
Styles A and B is in the additional strings reinforcing the 
central portion of the latter. Handles 5 and 5% inches in circum- 
ference. Stringing of clearest and absolutely best quality lambs' 
gut. Tag attached to each racket, giving particulars of special in- 
spection. Each racket enclosed in special quality mackintosh cover. 
We use a dogwood insertion in shoulders, after proving to our 
satisfaction, by experience, that it is far superior to cane or 
other material for the purpose. 




NO.GM/ 



STYLE B STRINGING. 



Each, $S.OO 



WE guarantee Lawn 
Tennis Rackets /f 9 i 
for a period of 30 fitaSBg^ 
days from date of pur- |<li1SSl!DlilN*) 
chase by tlie user. The 
Guarantee Tag attached "~^§^ 
to each Spalding Lawn 
Tennis Racket reads as follows: If 
this Rarket proves defective in work- 
manship or material within 30 days 
from date of pttrchase, please return, 
transportation charges prepaid, to any 
Spalding Store, and the defect will be 
( rectified. Imperfectly strung Rackets 
will be restrung, and in the event of a 
broken frame due to workmanship or 
defective material, the Racket will be 
replaced. Notice.— This Guarantee 
does not apply to Rackets weighing 
less than 13 ounces. 



We urge that at the conclusion of 
play this Racket be rubbed dry, and 
when not in use be covered with a 
Waterproof Cover, placed in a 
Racket Press, and the gut occasion- 
ally varnished. 



I/EEP 



YOUR RACKET IN A 
DRY P1.ACE, oHicrwlse 
the Guxu-antee is Void. 



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QUALITY 




Spalding 
''Official 
National 
League*' 

nco.a.a.»*T. or*. 

Ball 



Official Ball 
of the Game 
for over 
Thirty Years 



DOPTED by the National League in 1878, and the only ball used in Cham» 
pionship games since that time. Each ball wrapped in tinfoil, packed in 
a separate box, and sealed in accordance with the latest League refla- 
tions. Warranted to last a full game when used under ordinary conditions. 



No. 1. Each, $1.25 



Per Dozen, $15.00 



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sSbSe THE SPALDING 



QUALITY 



The Spalding Official 

Intercollegiate 

Foot Ball 




This is the ONLY OFFICIAL COLLEGE FOOT BALL, and is used in every important matc-Q played 
in this country. Guaranteed absolutely if seal of box is unbroken. Each ball 
complete in sealed box, including leather case, guaranteed pure Para rubber bladder (not compounded), 
inflater, lacing needle and rawhide lace. 



No. J5. Complete, $5.00 



WE GUARANTEE every Spalding Foot Ball to be perfect 
In material and workmanship and correct in shape and size 
ivhen inspected at our factory. If any defect is discovered dur- 
ing the flrst game in which it is used, or during the first day's 
practice use, and if returned at once, we wil! repJace same under 
this guarantee. We do not guarantee against ordinary wear nor 
against defect in shape or size that us not discovered immedi- 
ately after the first day's use. 

Owing to the superb quality of every Spalding Foot Ball, 
our customers have grown to expect a season's use of one ball» 
and at times make y ^ 

unreasonable claims jy/^ >^ -^ • ^^ 



<ik^. 



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IHE following selection of items from their latest Catalogue will give an 
l^J.Sf..**'*^ 9''^** variety of ATHLETIC GOODS manufactured by A. G. 
SPALDING & BROS. SEND FOR A FREE COPY. 



Archery 
Bags — 

Bat 

Cricket 

Striking 

Uniform 
Balls- 
Base 

Basket 

Cricket 

Field Hockey 

Foot, College 

Foot, Rugby 

Foot, Soccer 

Golf 

Hand 

Indoor 

Medicine 

Playground 

Squash 

Tennis 

Volley 

Water Polo 
Bandages. Elastic 
Bathing Suits 
Bats- 
Base Ball 

Cricket 
Belts 
Caps- 
Base Ball 

University 

Water Polo 
Chest Weights 
Circle, Seven-Foot 
Coats, Base Ball 
Collars, Swimming 
Corks. Running 
Covers, Racket 
Cricket Goods 
Croquet Goods 
Discus, Olympic 
Dumb Bells 
Emblems 
Equestrian Polo 
Exerciser, Home 
Felt Letters 
Fencing Sticks 
Field Hockey 
Flags - 

College 

Foul, Base Ball 

Marking, Golf 
Foils, Fencing 
Foot Balls- 
Association 

College 

Rugby 
Glasses, Base Ball 

Sun 

Automobile 



Gloves — 

Base Ball 

Boxing 

Cricket 

Fencing 

Foot Ball 

Golf 

Handball 

Hockey, Ice 
Glove Softener 
Goals — 

Basket Ball 

Foot Ball 

Hockey, Ice 
Golf Clubs 
Golf Counters 
Golfette 

Gymnasium, Home 
Gymnasium Board 
Hammers, Athletic 
Hats, University 
Head Harness 
Health Pull 
Hockey Sticks, Ice 
Hole Cutter, Golf 
Hole Rim, Golf 
Horse, Vaulting 
Hurdles, Safety 
Hurley Goods 
Indian Clubs 
Jackets — 

Fencing 

Foot Ball 
Javelins 
Jerseys 

Knee Protectors 
Liacrosse 
Lanes for Sprints 
Lawn Bowls 
Leg Guards— 

Base Ball 

Cricket 

Foot Ball 
Markers, Tennis 
Masks — 

Base Ball 

Fencing 

Nose [inal 

Masseur, A b d o m" 
Mattresses 
Megaphones 
Mitts- 
Base Ball 

Handball 

Striking Bag 
Moccasins 
Nets- 
Cricket 

Golf Driving 

Tennis 

Volley Ball 



Numbers, Compet- 

Pads— [iters' 

Chamois, Fencing 
Foot Ball 
Sliding, Base Ball 

Pants- 
Base Ball 
Basket Ball 
Foot Ball, College 
Foot Ball, Rugby 
Hockey, Ice 
Running 

Pennants, College 

Plates- 
Base Ball Shoe 
Home 

Marking, Tennis 
Pitchers' Box 
Pitchers' Toe 
Teeing, Golf 

Platforms, Striking 
Bag 

Poles- 
Vaulting 

Polo, Roller. Goods 

Posts — 
Backstop, Tennis 
Lawn Tennis 

Protectors — 
Abdomen 
Base Ball Body 
Eye Glass 

Push Ball 

Quoits 

Rackets, Tennis 

Rings- 
Exercising 
Swinging 

Rowing Machines 

Roque 

Sacks, for Sack 
Racing 

Score Board, Golf 

Score Books— 

Score Tablets, Base 

Shirts— [Ball 

Athletic 
Base Ball 

Shoes — 
Base Ball 
Basket Ball 
Bowling 
Clog 

Cross Country 
Cricket 

Fencing [ation 
Foot Ball, Associ- 
Foot Ball, College 
Foot Ball, Rugby 
Foot Ball, Soccer 
Golf 
Gymnasium 



Shoes — 
Jumping 
Running 
Skating 
Squash 
Tennis 

Shot- 
Athletic 
Indoor 
Massage 

Skates- 
Ice 
Roller 

Skis 

Sleeve. Pitchers 

Snow Shoes 

Squash Goods 

Straps- 
Base Ball 
For T h r e e - 
Legged Race 
Skate 

Stockings 

Striking Bags 

Suits- 
Basket Ball 
Gymnasium 
Gymnasium, 

Ladies' 
Running 
Soccer 
Swimming 
Union Foot 
Ball 

Supporters 
Ankle 
Wrist 

Suspensories 

Sweaters 

Tether Tennis 

Tights - 
Full 

W restling 
Knee 

Toboggans 

Trapeze 

Trunks- 
Bathing 
Velvet 
Worsted 

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A Standard Quality must be inseparably linked to a Standard Policy. 

Without a definite and Standard Mercantile Policy, it is impossible for a manufacturer to long 
maintain a Standard Quality. 

To market his goods through the jobber, a manufacturer must provide a profit for the jobber as 
well as the retail dealer. To meet these conditions of Dual Profits, the manufacturer is obliged to 
set a proportionately high list price on his goods to the consumer. 

To enable the glib salesman, when booking his orders, to figure out attractive profits to both the 
jobber and retailer, these high list prices are absolutely essential; but their real purpose will have been 
served when the manufacturer has secured his order from the jobber, and the jobber has secured his 
order from the retailer. 

However, these deceptive high list prices are not fair to the consumer, who does not, and, in 
reality, is not ever expected to pay these fancy list prices. 

When the season opens for the sale of such goods, with their misleading but alluring high list 
prices, the retailer begins to realize his responsibilities, and grapples with the situation as best he 
can, by offering "special discounts," which vary with local trade conditions. 

Under this system of merchandising, the profits to both the manufacturer and the jobber are 
assured; but as there is no stability maintained in the prices to the consumer, the keen competition 
amongst the local dealers invariably leads to a demoralized cutting of prices bj- which the profits of 
the retailer are practically eliminated. 

This demoralization always reacts on the manufacturer. ^The jobber insists on lower, and still 
lower, prices. The manufacturer in his turn, meets this demand for the lowering of prices by the 
only way open to him, viz. : the cheapening and degrading of the quality of his product. 

The foregoing conditions became so intolerable that, ten years ago, in 1899, A. G. Spalding 
& Bros, determined to rectify this demoralization in the Athletic Goods Trade, and inaugurated what 
has since become known as "The Spalding Policy." 

The "Spalding Policy" eliminates the jobber entirely, so far as Spalding Goods are concerned, 
and the retail dealer secures his supply of Spalding Athletic Goods direct from the manufacturer 
under a restricted retail price arrangement by which the retail dealer is assured a fair, legitimate and 
certain profit on all Spalding Athletic Goods, and the consumer is assured a Standard Quality and is 
protected from imposition. 

The "Spalding Policy" is decidedly for the interest and protection of the users of Athletic Goods, 
and acts in two ways: 

First— The user is assured of genuine Official Standard Athletic Goods, and 

the same fixed prices to everybody. 
Second— As manufacturers, we can proceed with confidence in purchasing at 
the proper time, the very best raw materials required in the manufacture 
of our various goods, well ahead of their respective seasons, and this enables 
us to provide the necessary quantity and absolutely maintain the Spalding 
Standard of Quality. 
All retail dealers handling Spalding Athletic Goods are required to supply consumers at our 
regular printed catalogue prices — neither more nor less— the same prices that similar goods are sold 
for in our New York, Chicago and other stores. 

All Spalding dealers, as well as users of Spalding Athletic Goods, are treated exactly alike, and no 
special rebates or discriminations are allowed to anyone. 

Positively, nobody: not even oflScers, managers, salesmen or other employes of A. G. Spalding 
& Bros. , or any of their relatives or personal friends, can buy Spalding Athletic Goods at a discount 
from the regular catalogue prices. 

This, briefly, is the "Spalding Policy," which has already been in successful operation for the 
past ten years, and will be indefinitely continued. 

In other words, " The Spalding Policy " is a " square deal " for everybody. 



By 



A. G. SPALDING & BROS. 

PUSIDKKT, C^ 



